Stockport will not pull out of controversial development masterplan before new version is revealed next month
manchestereveningnews.co.ukStockport will not pull out of the region’s controversial development masterplan ahead of its latest draft being released next month.Councillors voted against withdrawing from the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) at a heated town hall meeting last night.The Liberal Democrat group tabled a motion calling for the authority to concentrate on developing its own local plan, claiming the government’s intention to radically overhaul the planning system would soon render the GMSF ‘redundant’ in any case.Leader Coun Mark Hunter told elected members it was time to put the long-delayed plan ‘out of its misery’.The proposal was strongly backed by the Heald Green Independent Ratepayers.But Labour and Conservative groups said it was a reckless.
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