Stockport is being hailed as the ‘Hollywood of the North’ as it grows its reputation as a popular filming location for some of the world’s leading TV shows and films.
11.08.2023 - 17:31 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The huge Greater Manchester-wide blueprint for ‘housing, jobs, and growth’, can finally move forward following a government review.
The plan, which only covers nine Greater Manchester boroughs - Stockport being the odd one out - will now go out for another round of public consultation.
Stockport left the ‘Greater Manchester Spatial Framework’, as it was originally called, in December 2020 after then-opposition councillors blocked its approval.
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In a blow to Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Paul Dennett, the Mayor of Salford who is tasked with delivering the masterplan, the city-region was forced to move with a ‘plan of nine’. Today’s development is that government inspectors have approved that plan — called Places for Everyone (PfE) — and recommended councils to launch a new public consultation.
That consultation will look a ‘set of recommendations to clarify the wording of the policies’ of the blueprint, but inspectors appointed by Michael Gove have rubber-stamped ‘the vision, objectives, and spatial strategy’ of Place for Everyone. The decision comes after an eight-month long ‘Examination in Public’ hearing of the plan.
It means that residents in Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan will now be asked for their views on individual PfE policies. This will be another consultation for residents, with previous feedback sessions taking place in 2016, 2019, and 2021.
It does however mean that it looks likely that implementing a city-region-wide blueprint will not happen until next year, a decade on from its inception in August 2014. It’s a journey Mayor Paul Dennett has
Stockport is being hailed as the ‘Hollywood of the North’ as it grows its reputation as a popular filming location for some of the world’s leading TV shows and films.
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