The Manchester Local Plan guides development within Manchester. It was previously known as the Local Development Framework.
It consists of the:
- Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan for Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan 2022 to 2039. This was adopted in 2024.
- Core Strategy: the key document in the Local Plan. This must be read alongside the Addendum to Manchester Core Strategy 2024.
- Interactive Proposals Map: showing the Core Strategy and the extant (remaining) Unitary Development Plan policies
- Extant (remaining) Unitary Development Plan policies: many of these policies were replaced by the Core Strategy, see which remain.
- Greater Manchester Joint Waste DPD: adopted by each of the ten Greater Manchester Authorities, and came into force on 1 April 2012.
- Greater Manchester Joint Minerals DPD: adopted by each of the ten Greater Manchester Authorities, and came into force on 26 April 2013