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Labour to bulldoze the Green Belt!
Places for Everyone (and the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework before it) was originally sold to us as a spatial plan that would...
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Noel
- Feb 21
- 4 min
Oldham Local Plan consultation
Oldham Council has put out its Local Plan to consultation. The Local Plan will implement the policies of the Places for Everyone Greater...
Noel
- Feb 18
- 3 min
Places for Everyone and the fate of the Green Belt
Places for Everyone (formerly the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework), which proposes to build around 30,000 houses and 2 million...
Noel
- Oct 10, 2023
- 2 min
Save the Green Belt petition
SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE THE GREEN BELT https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/SGMGB-P4E The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (rebranded...
Noel
- Oct 4, 2023
- 1 min
GMSF update
The modified plan for Places for Everyone has finally arrived, and will go out to consultation later this month. If you live in Thornham...
Noel
- Jan 18, 2023
- 5 min
The GMSF endgame
Save Royton’s Greenbelt may have been quiet over the last few months but we have not gone away. The Places for Everyone master-plan...
Noel
- May 7, 2022
- 4 min
What does the GMSF mean for the future of Labour in Royton?
Greater Manchester’s housing master plan, Places for Everyone (formerly the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework) will be undergoing...
Noel
- Feb 17, 2022
- 4 min
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Hanging Chadder and Green Belt in Royton face obliteration...
On February 14th, Andy Burnham and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority submitted the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan to...
Noel
- Jan 10, 2022
- 5 min
The Green Belt battle and the Clean Air Zone battle are the same fight
On 30 May 2022, the Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone will come into effect. It will span the whole of Greater Manchester and be the...
Noel
- Aug 14, 2021
- 4 min
The GMSF Strikes Back
The Greater Manchester Spatial Framework has returned, with Royton's Green Belt once again in its sights. The last time we saw the GMSF...
Noel
- May 8, 2021
- 4 min
What does Labour’s defeat at the polls mean for the future of the GMSF?
Save Royton’s Greenbelt is not a political group and for that reason we did not endorse any political candidates or party, but the fact...
Noel
- Mar 25, 2021
- 3 min
The light at the end of the tunnel…
Councillor Hannah Roberts, Cabinet Member for Housing at OMBC, has announced that the Hanging Chadder allocation will not be included in...
Noel
- Dec 29, 2020
- 2 min
Happy trails...
As Greater Manchester hurtles towards Tier 4 lockdown, it is worth taking a moment to consider the impact COVID-19 restrictions are...
Noel
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
Democracy has consequences
On Tuesday evening, the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework was once more derailed, this time courtesy of Liberal Democrat councillors...
Noel
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Divide and conquer: Thornham residents shouldn't throw a street party just yet...
Oldham Labour Party have saved Thornham Old Road from development. Or so they would have us believe. Despite the dubious merit of this...
Noel
- Aug 18, 2020
- 4 min
A call to arms...
Royton needs your help raising the funds to take OMBC to court.
Noel
- May 18, 2020
- 4 min
GMSF myth-buster
During the course of our campaign to save Royton's Green Belt, the people of Royton have been subjected to disinformation by the Mayor of...
Noel
- Aug 5, 2019
- 3 min
Stephen Irvine, Head of Planning, suspended by OMBC.
Stephen Irvine, Head of Planning and Infrastructure at Oldham Metropolitan Borough, has been suspended from the council. According to...
Noel
- Mar 22, 2019
- 2 min
Save Royton's Greenbelt appeal now available to download
In short, these plans are nothing short of a disaster for Royton, and the north of the borough in general. We believe our appeal is a powerf
Noel
- Mar 15, 2019
- 3 min
A "building land shortage" is being manufactured by the GMSF
The reason being given for releasing land from the greenbelt is that Oldham (and Greater Manchester at large) will run out of building land
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