Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan

Places for Everyone is the joint development plan of nine Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan) dealing with strategic planning issues including jobs, homes, transport, and natural environment. 

Following the examination of the Plan all nine Places for Everyone (PfE) Councils considered the Inspectors’ recommendations and the adoption of the Plan and related documentation at Council meetings held between 28 February and 20 March 2024. In Oldham this was at Council on 13 March 2024. 

All nine authorities adopted the PfE Plan. Therefore, this will now become part of the statutory development plan for each of the nine PfE authorities, on 21 March 2024.

Oldham Council’s Adoption Statement for the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan can be found below:

The Adoption Statement includes details of where the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan, is available for inspection online across the borough (at all Oldham libraries and Access Oldham).

The Adoption Statement also sets out how any person aggrieved by the adoption of Places for Everyone, may make an application to the High Court under Section 113 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, and the process for doing so.

Places for Everyone and the adoption documentation, including the following, can be found on the GMCA’s website on the Places for Everyone Adoption page: 

  • Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan Document, including accompanying Policies Map
  • The adoption statement
  • The Integrated Assessment (incorporating sustainability appraisal)
  • The Integrated Assessment (incorporating sustainability appraisal) adoption statement (as required by regulation 16 of the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004)
  • Details of where the Places for Everyone plan is available for inspection online and the places and times at which the document can be inspected

Supplementary Planning Documents

On behalf of, and in conjunction with, the Places for Everyone (PfE) Plan local planning authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan), the GMCA is co-ordinating the production of two joint Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs). These are the:

  • Holcroft Moss Planning Obligations SPD
  • South Pennine Moors SPD

These SPDs are being produced to support the implementation of the PfE Plan. 

Consultation on the SPDs and supporting documents is taking place from Friday 1st November 2024 to 11.59pm on Thursday 12 December 2024, for a period of 6 weeks.

Information on the SPDs can be found on the GMCA website below:

The Statement of Availabilty (Public Notice) for the two SPDs below are below: