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The PHC work programme for 2012/13 defines the key pieces of work the Commission and the Planning and Housing Team are responsible for delivering over the next 12-15 months.

The seven key projects are:-

Project 1. Delivering housing to support growth:

1a) A fit for purpose housing land supply: The primary aims of this project are to facilitate the delivery of alternate
housing investment models in GM by ensuring GM has a supply of market facing sites and can attract investment in locations which generate value.

1b) A GM housing investment model: The key aim of this project is to offer a new investment model which can be adopted across GM to deliver new homes (affordable and market rate homes), which, in a climate of reductions in traditional public funding, may not otherwise be provided.

1c) Affordable Homes Programme delivery: The key aim of this project is to maximise the scale and impact of the AHP investment within GM, ensuring that it complements wider GM strategies for growth and regeneration as far as possible.

Project 2. Flood and Water management: The project focus is on the short to medium term time horizons (ie up to two years) and the key aim is to support districts in meeting their responsibilities under the Flood and Water Management Act as efficiently as possible, linking FWM to new investment opportunities.

Project 3. Collaborative services in strategic planning and housing: this project explores and develops specific proposals for greater collaboration on strategic planning and housing functions at the GM level, improving resilience and identifying efficiencies for districts.

Project 4. The GM Spatial Investment Framework: The key aim will be the production of an agreed Greater Manchester Spatial Investment Framework. This will identify GM spatial priorities for investment and begin to clarify the associated infrastructure requirements.

Project 5. Integrated Infrastructure Planning Process: This project will establish an infrastructure planning process alongside the Spatial Investment Framework and governance arrangements for informing GM decisions on strategic infrastructure investments. Specific objectives include identifying the infrastrucure barriers for delivering GMs pipeline of investment projects.

To download a copy of the full Work Programme, including project briefs click on the link in Related Documents (see right).

Also available to download in the Related Dcouments section (see right) is a copy of the presentation given at a Planning Advisory Service Event on 29th September 2011. This provides an overview of the Commission and it's fit and purpose as part of AGMA. It explores the experience of collaborative working on subregional planning issues in Greater Manchester.