Places for Everyone
Places for Everyone is a long-term plan of nine Greater Manchester districts (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan) for jobs, new homes and sustainable growth.
It sets out where we will build the new homes we need, where our businesses will locate to sustain and create jobs for our people, what infrastructure is needed to support the development and to protect and enhance our towns, cities and landscapes. It is proposed to cover a timeframe up to 2039.
We, along with the eight other PfE authorities, adopted the Plan on 21 March 2024, and it now forms part of the statutory Development Plan for the borough.
Places for Everyone replaces / partly replaces some of the Trafford Core Strategy (2012) policies. A schedule of replaced policies is set out in PfE Appendix A.
The Places for Everyone Plan, Policies Map and Integrated Assessment Adoption Statement and documentation is available on the GMCA website.
Examination in public
The Places for Everyone Plan was submitted to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in February 2022. The Examination hearing sessions took place between November 2022 and July 2023.
Following the hearing sessions, the Inspectors identified a series of Main Modifications considered necessary to make the plan sound.
Representations were invited on the proposed Main Modifications for a period of eight weeks from 11 October to 6 December 2023. View the responses to this consultation on the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s (GMCA) website.
More information on Places for Everyone (including the documents submitted as part of the examination) is available on the GMCA’s website.
Inspectors’ report
On behalf of the nine Places for Everyone authorities, the GMCA has published the report and recommendations of the independent Inspectors appointed to carry out the examination of the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan Document for Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.
The Inspectors’ Report, received on 14 February 2024, marks the end the examination into the plan which included public hearing sessions which took place between 1 November 2022 and 5 July 2023.
The report sets out the findings of the examination of the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan Document (PfE).
The Inspectors conclude that all legal requirements have been met and that with the recommended main modifications set out in the Appendix of their report.
The Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan Document for Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan satisfies the requirements referred to in Section 20(5)(a) of the 2004 Act and is sound.
Places for Everyone (PfE) in Trafford
Places for Everyone now forms part of the statutory Development Plan for Trafford, alongside saved policies from the Trafford Core Strategy and Unitary Development Plan, and will be used in the determination of planning applications.
PfE identifies two strategic allocations within Trafford: