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Sarah Townsend The council has asked landowners, land promoters and the public to propose non-greenfield sites for redevelopment, as it starts to draw up its own local plan after withdrawing from the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework last year. Stockport Council decided to leave the GMSF – now called Places for Everyone – last December due to concerns over Green Belt release raised by local Conservatives and others. The other nine Greater Manchester boroughs are now pressing ahead with a revised strategy for allocating land for employment and housing across the city-region, without Stockport. But the decision leaves Stockport under pressure to produce a separate local plan that delivers on the steep housing targets imposed on Greater Manchester boroughs under national planning policy. Mayor Andy Burnham claimed in a letter to Stockport’s Conservative MPs last year: “The GMSF allows the 10 Greater Manchester boroughs to share out the numbers of homes that ea ....
Call for sites as town hall draws up new brownfield-first housing plan It comes after the borough dramatically pulled out of the region’s Greater Manchester Spatial Framework strategy last year. Don t miss a thing by getting the day s biggest stories sent direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Click here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice People in Stockport are being urged to suggest brownfield sites for future housing development. ....
› Help us to identify land in your local area which you consider may have some development potential – Stockport Local Plan Call for Brownfield sites Last updated Yesterday Help us to identify land in your local area which you consider may have some development potential – Stockport Local Plan Call for Brownfield sites Stockport Council has today put a call out for brownfield sites, to help support work on our new Local Plan. We are asking people to put forward land or sites that you consider could be brought forward for development in local communities and the borough. We want to hear about the sites in your local areas which you believe should be considered before we need to make decisions in respect of other land within our borough.They might be derelict or underutilised sites, vacant commercial premises or an occupied building which has a use which doesn’t fit particularly well in an area. ....