Greater Manchester has set out plans to build 165,000 homes over the next 16 years as it continues its five-year-long attempt to get an agreed plan in place for the whole conurbation.

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority said on Monday it was pushing ahead with a new version of its controversial spatial framework, despite one Manchester council withdrawing from the process late last year.

The authority has published a draft version of what it is now calling the Places for Everyone plan for the nine local authorities in Greater Manchester, barring Stockport, that have remained committed to it.

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