More information has been published on the ‘Greater Manchester Call for Sites’. All ten local authorities in Greater Manchester are working together to produce a Greater Manchester Spacial Framework. This will be a joint plan that identifies land to provide the new houses, jobs, infrastructure for the future – an estimated 225,000 new houses are proposed for the next 25 years.

The call for sites has been asking landowners, developers, interest groups and others to identify sites that they think may be suitable for development in the future.

All of the sites we receive through the call for sites are promoted by their owners or developers. They have no endorsement as sites for future development by Greater Manchester and its constituent 10 districts. Decisions on whether such sites will, or will not, be supported will be made when the draft GMSF is produced for public consultation in October this year.

More information has been released on the individual applications. For data protection reasons, GMSG have redacted personal information, such as personal names and email addresses.

For the Prestwich area there are some very significant proposals. Most of these are to the east of Prestwich, with very significant proposals for new houses in the area between Prestwich and Middleton. The most significant proposals are for 1264 between Heywood Old Road and Simister Lane and 701 homes north of Simister Lane. There are smaller proposals for land down Nutt Lane, land around Parrenthorn School. On the other side of Prestwich there are proposals for a significant housing development immediately on the Salford side of Drinkwater Park.

The map can be viewed here. The details of all proposals are on this spreadsheet.

Our very clear view is that although we do need to ensure that we have the houses that we need, the priority should be to use ‘brownfield sites’, rather than building on the greenbelt land that surrounds us. Liberal Democrat councillors will give our 100% support to residents campaigning to save our greenbelt land.

We will know more when the first recommendations are published in October.

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