To keep up with Rochdale news sign up to the MyRochdale newsletter here Accusations of lies, hypocrisy and red herrings abounded as Rochdale council voted to progress the region’s controversial new housing plan.
It means that Places for Everyone - the successor to the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework - will go out to the next stage of consultation provided each of the other eight boroughs involved also back it.
The blueprint is then to be submitted to the secretary of state for independent examination. READ MORE: Manchester leaders back 'Clean Air Zone' charge on polluting vehicles - and new housing and jobs masterplan Stockport pulled out of the blueprint last year, leaving the remaining areas to form a ‘plan of the nine’.
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