Manchester kicks off local plan consultation
Over the next eight weeks, the city council will be gathering feedback on a spatial strategy aimed at guiding development across the city over the next 15 years.
Among the headlines in Manchester’s refreshed local plan is an intention to ramp up the delivery of affordable homes across the city.
The city council plans to up the amount of on-site affordable housing it asks developers for from 20% to 30% in a bid to hit the target of delivering 10,000 discounted homes across the city by 2032 set out in the authority’s housing strategy.
The city council’s local plan also sets out a target of 3,533 homes per year and a need to deliver pipeline of 15m sq ft of office space and 580,000 sq ft of industrial space to meet demand in the plan period.
Have your say on the local plan
Cllr Gavin White, Manchester City Council’s executive member for housing and development, said: “Manchester has huge ambitions to make our city even better with great neighbourhoods and more good quality homes and well-paid jobs for all of our residents.
“The local plan helps guide appropriate development in the city to make sure that it supports Manchester’s growth and provides a blueprint for development going through the planning process.”
Unfortunately they haven’t hit the twenty percent target on developments yet, so what is the point in raising it to thirty percent. As a local taxpayer I would be happy with a lower percentage as long as they made it mandatory, non negotiable even if the developer lost money and end the use of SPV’s which give the developer a “get out of jail.” Other than that, brilliant, crack on.
By McD.
Build build build….need the work
By Anonymous
If they fail to get rybank fields over the line they might as well admit defeat
By Anonymous
More affordable housing required? No problem. The council must insist on a minimum 20% before a development would even be considered for approval. The more above the minimum, the likely approval should be.
By Bernard Fender
Are adequate services such as roads, sewage, doctors surgeries, schools etc going to be included in such consultations and adequate provision put in place for these further developments
By Mark Gibbons