Stockport Council leader Sue Derbyshire wants to build ‘attractive places that people want to live and work in’.
Cllr Derbyshire is the lead on housing and planning for Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), which has received suggestions for more than 600 sites across the region to build housing.
The consultation was aimed at landowners and developers, but was open to anyone to make suggestions.
The sites put forward so far are yet to be analysed and commented on by the GMCA and a full response isn’t expected until autumn of this year.
Cllr Derbyshire said: “The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework will help the city-region to determine how we use land in future.
“This means outlining how many new homes we need and how much land is required for new businesses and employment but it also means looking at how we can do this in a way that creates attractive places that people want to live and work in.
“We want to make sure that local people as well as developers and landowners in the city-region have as many opportunities as possible to provide feedback on the framework as it develops.
“Publishing the responses to the consultation and the sites that have been suggested for development is another important step in ensuring local people are involved in creating the framework.”
The 10 Greater Manchester councils are working together to develop a joint framework which will identify the land needed to meet housing and business needs over the next 20 years and manage the supply of land across the city-region.
Anne Morgan, strategic planning manager at Wigan Council, working on behalf of Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s housing and planning team, said: “All of the consultation responses and sites submitted to the call for sites so far are now being published, so that residents, local businesses and other key stakeholders can see the material submitted.
“Greater Manchester’s local authorities have formed no views about the submissions to the consultation or the call for sites. Decisions on the consultation submissions and whether sites will, or will not be, supported will be made at a later stage and when the draft GMSF is produced in autumn 2016.”
Any sites identified will then be assessed to see if they are suitable, available and achievable and comply with the policies being developed for the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework.
Once complete, the framework will also outline the transport and other infrastructure improvements needed to meet Greater Manchester’s ambitions for more jobs and housing.