About Manchester’s Local Plan and how to respond to the consultation.
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Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area. In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone sets the scene, as does the government's National Planning Policy Framework. That means that there are some very real constraints on what can be put into a so-called Local Plan (not very local - in the case of…
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