Latest update: August 2024
On 8th August 2024, SMBC announced that the consultation (which had been scheduled to start in September 2024) on the Local Plan has been suspended as a result of extensive proposed policy changes and a much higher housing number for Stockport and many other Councils in the Country.
It added "A revised Local Development Scheme, formally setting out our timetable towards submission of a Local Plan in compliance with the proposed NPPF, will be issued in due course."
DW 26-Aug-2024
Previous updates
In December 2020 SMBC councillors met to vote on whether to accept the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework.
The council voted to reject being part of the GMSF, so now the council will have to develop it's own Stockport Plan to cover housing, transport and infrastructure etc by the end of 2023.
The draft plan is expected to be out soon for public consultation.
Updated details can be found at
The High Lane Village Neighbourhood Forum [HLVNF] has been successful in the referendum stage which saw the Plan being made. It contains policies in regard to any future developments in the village [Housing, transport, green and open spaces and heritage].
It will now be incorporated into the SMBC Local Plan.
Please look at the HLVNF page on this website for more information on how the Forum progressed through the process and got the Plan made.
DB 20.11.21