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Terms of Reference

The Terms of Reference of the Commission are as follows

Its objectives are to:-

• work with partners to ensure that the infrastructure of Greater Manchester has the capacity and resilience needed to support the city region’s ambitions for transformational and sustainable growth;

• develop and coordinate a spatial planning framework for Greater Manchester within the context of the Greater Manchester Strategic Plan to underpin and link districts’ Local Development Frameworks and Core Spatial Strategies; and take actions to implement this spatial framework when these actions are appropriately taken at the sub regional level;

• coordinate and manage joint Local Development Framework activity across the combined administrative area on behalf of the 10 local planning authorities, in circumstances where this is agreed as appropriate (initially in terms of Waste and Minerals Planning);

• develop and coordinate a Greater Manchester Housing Strategy within the context of the Greater Manchester Strategic Plan and take actions to implement this strategy when these are appropriately taken at the sub regional level; and.

• determine the process for the future allocation of any pooled public sector housing resources across the combined administrative area and provide a sub-regional context for managing the scale, distribution and mix of new housing development.