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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...
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Noel
- Feb 17
- 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
- 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
Noel
- Mar 14, 2019
- 1 min
Oldham is the only borough to increase its housing target
The latest GMSF draft has increased Oldham’s target while lowering the target in every other district of Greater Manchester, despite the fac
Noel
- Mar 13, 2019
- 1 min
Oldham has the worst "empty homes" record in Greater Manchester
With over 3 percent (2,893) of all homes in Oldham MB vacant as of 2017, Oldham has the worst record in the whole of Greater Manchester. And
Noel
- Mar 12, 2019
- 2 min
Oldham's greenbelt is being sacrificed to save Stockport's
The Local Housing Need (LHN) for each borough or city across the country is established by a standardised independent methodology. In theory
Noel
- Mar 11, 2019
- 2 min
80 percent of all the building on the greenbelt will be in and around Royton
The physical scale of land mass isn’t the only important factor in analyzing the greenbelt allocations. The distribution of plot allocations
Noel
- Mar 10, 2019
- 1 min
Just five wards will account for one tenth of all the greenbelt loss in Greater Manchester
Across Oldham MB, 352 ha (hectares) of greenbelt will be built on. Royton, Shaw & Crompton and Chadderton North (44 ha) will lose 255 ha
Noel
- Mar 2, 2019
- 2 min
Does a “Tory target” really exist?
Throughout much of the debate surrounding the Greater Manchester Spacial Framework, much has been made of the “Tory target” i.e. a mandated