In Greater Manchester, despite solid progress being made on the
regeneration agenda, housing supply has stubbornly lagged behind
forecast need. Greater Manchester, is now setting itself the
challenge of building over 10,000 new homes per annum. It currently
only manages 4,000. Whilst this might not be described as a crisis
– it is certainly a major issue.
The new combined authority will, over the next 2 years produce
the first Greater Manchester Land Use Plan – or Spatial
Framework since 1974 – one of the key issues for the plan,
clearly will be housing supply.
It is a racing certainty that there will be divergent opinions on
where new homes should be built, there will be those who continue
to support high density housing in the City Centre and those who
believe now is the time to build more homes in the green belt or on
greenfield sites. Whilst both options potentially have their place
we think there is a 'third way' not being actively pursued
at the current
