Preferred Options Stage

• Consultation Responses A-C
• Consultation Responses C-J
• Consultation Responses J-K
• Consultation Responses K-M
• Consultation Responses M-S
• Consultation Responses S-Z

Notice of update to the consultation

The Council adjusted its Homes, Spaces, Places Preferred Option Consultation Draft Local Plan and supporting information on 23 December 2025. Please can you ensure when responding to the consultation that you review the updated version of the plan which is now available using the link further down this page.

What is the change?

The housing and employment allocation HSP S2E: Allocation 1: Land northwest of Junction 24 has been removed from the plan. Consequential amendments to Policy HSP S2E: Audenshaw have been made to remove reference to the allocation in the policy text and renumber the remaining development allocations and the policy criteria.

Consequential amendments have been made elsewhere in the plan and supporting information to remove reference to the allocation, namely removing a criterion from Policy HSP S2F: Denton that referenced the allocation and renumbering of the remaining policy criteria, revising the housing and employment land supply figures throughout Chapter 5 Spatial Framework, and updating the page numbering and contents pages.

Separately there have been some typographical corrections made at points throughout the plan.

Why has this change been made?

After further consideration, the allocation is not considered likely to be substantively deliverable within the plan period and therefore has been removed as an allocation and from the indicated housing and employment land supply within the plan.