Government urged to block Greater Manchester's massive plans to build on green belt
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe government is being urged to step in to save Greater Manchester's green belt as a controversial plan to build 175,000 homes in the city-region is set to be approved after nearly a decade of delays.
The Places for Everyone masterplan for 'housing, jobs and growth' reached a key milestone last week as the final stage of public consultation on the the joint development plan got under way.
Its predecessor, the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, went through several rounds of consultation before Stockport council pulled out of the plan in 2020, leaving the other nine boroughs in the city-region to come up with a new one.
The revised plan, which was subject to months of public hearings starting last year, would see more than 2,000 hectares of land taken out of the green belt.
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