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MANCHESTER UNITARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN: EXPIRED POLICIES DIRECTION UNDER PARAGRAPH 1(3) OF SCHEDULE 8 TO THE PLANNING AND COMPULSORY PURCHASE ACT 2004 The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act, which came into force in September 2004, introduced a new planning system, which means that the Unitary Development Plan will be replaced with a Local Development Framework. The Local Development Framework Core Strategy will not be adopted until 2010 therefore the policies in the Unitary Development Plan have to be ‘saved’ so that they can continue to be used in the meantime. The City Council was required to apply to the Secretary of State to continue saving the policies past the 27th September 2007. A number of policies were no longer relevant so the Secretary of State directed that these policies not be saved. The policies listed overleaf expired on the 27th September 2007 and no longer form part of the development plan for Manchester. All other policies remain saved. Policies that expired on the 27th September 2007 AREA 11 Rusholme and Fallowfield PART ONE H1.1 PART TWO AREA SPECIFIC POLICIES RF2 AREA 1: Blackley, Charlestown and Moston RF9 BM10 RF13 AREA 2: Cheetham and Crumpsall AREA 13: Chorlton and Barlow Moor CC11 CB4 CC12 CB5 CC13 CB6 AREA 5: City Centre CB7 RC11 CB8 RC16 CB9 RC19 CB12 AREA 6: Hulme CB14 HU4 AREA 14: Withington and Burnage HU5 WB5 HU6 WB7 HU7 WB8 HU8 AREA 15: Didsbury HU11 DB4 HU13 DB5 HU14 DB6 HU15 DB11 HU16 AREA 16 – West Wythenshawe HU17 WW4 HU19 WW5 HU21 WW6 AREA 7 Moss Side AREA 17 East Wythenshawe MS2 EW2 MS3 EW4 MS4 EW5 MS5 EW6 MS6 EW7 MS7 EW10 AREA 9 North and South Gorton EW16 GO7 EW18 AREA 10 Whalley Range EW19 WR2 EW22 WR4 PREFACE The Manchester Plan was adopted on 21st July 1995 following an extensive period of public consultation and a major public inquiry. The process of producing the Plan has enabled a large number of individuals and organisations to have a say in the future of the city and the Plan that has emerged is all the better for this. I am grateful to all those people who have taken the trouble to help shape the Plan's proposals. The Council is committed to keeping the Plan up to date without throwing away the virtues of having a settled and well-understood planning framework for the city. Changes will therefore only be promoted where there is a clear need to do so. The Council has already indicated that it wishes to review the policies for the city centre and for the airport. Generally the approach will be to monitor the changes occurring in the city to see whether the Plan needs to be modified. If alterations are necessary, there will be full consultation with all people who are affected. The Plan has been published in a loose-leaf format to enable such changes to be made without having to reprint the whole document. The Plan will be important in shaping the future of the city. It will act as a context for the investment decisions of both public and private bodies and it will provide the framework for day-to-day decisions affecting development throughout Manchester. We are entering into an exciting period where city living is becoming more desirable. There are tremendous opportunities to provide new housing in Manchester particularly through the conversion of buildings such as warehouses in the city centre as well as encouraging residential development on many of the sites coming forward in the city every year for redevelopment. This will mean that people can live closer to where they work and closer to shops and leisure facilities and thus reduce the need to travel. In order for all of this to be successful it must be accompanied by widespread measures aimed at making the city an attractive place in which to live. The city centre, besides being a place where people again wish to reside, is becoming increasingly popular as a regional centre for business and shopping and also for tourism and a wide variety of leisure activities. The growth of commercial banking and financial and professional services, the refurbishment of the main shopping areas and the construction of the new concert hall and the 20,000 seater arena illustrate this. The recent Olympic bids and the nomination to host the Commonwealth Games in 2002 have helped the city once again to be a player on the world stage. The aim is to make Manchester a truly European regional capital, an international city of outstanding commercial, cultural and creative potential and an area distinguished by the quality of life and sense of well being enjoyed by its residents. There is much to do to achieve this vision. The Manchester Plan plays an important part in setting the agenda. COUNCILLOR KEN FRANKLIN CHAIR - ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING COMMITTEE MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL July 1995 CONTEXT Manchester, with its population of 450,000 and its 300,000 jobs, lies at the heart of one of Europe's major conurbations. Over 6 million people live within 30 miles of the City Centre. The City is the main administrative, commercial and cultural centre in the north of England. Because of its history and its continuing international role, Manchester is known world-wide. Manchester Airport ranks amongst the world's major airports. Many aspects of the City's daily life in the fields of learning, entertainment, sport and the media carry Manchester's name throughout the world and this international reputation has been further enhanced by the Olympic and Commonwealth Games Bids. All of this provides something very substantial on which to build. But a Plan for Manchester must above all relate to the needs of the people who live and work in the City. Many of these people have only a limited interest in its regional and international role. Indeed many of them experience the problems of noise and congestion that are generated by the level of activity that currently takes place in the City. It is also a quirk of administrative boundaries that many of the people who look to it for work and prosperity live outside the City and that many of the poorest areas in the conurbation lie cheek by jowl with the City Centre, but have relatively few links with it. Any Plan must also recognise that great cities like Manchester do not change overnight. They are the product of many changes, some big, some small, promoted by decisions made by large numbers of different people. Together, over time, these changes can and indeed do change the City, but it can take many years for their effect to become evident. Often changes are the unanticipated consequences of decisions taken in various walks of life, and indeed in other parts of the world, without reference to their potential impact on Manchester. The reality is that the management of change in a City like Manchester is not something that can be achieved by writing it down in a plan which can then simply be implemented. The majority of the decisions which will shape the future will not be taken by the Council. For the most part they will be taken by ordinary people - is Manchester the place they want to live, to bring up and educate their children, can they and their children find work, are they able to enjoy a healthy and prosperous life? What the Manchester Plan can do is to provide a vision for the City and a policy framework which can influence this multiplicity of decisions for the good of the City as a whole and its citizens. Thus the Plan must aim to make Manchester a City in which people are proud to live. It must be relevant to the needs of disadvantaged and oppressed groups of all kinds. It must seek to create conditions which will be attractive not only to people who want to Live in the City but also to those who have to be persuaded to invest, to provide jobs, services and facilities. The Plan must seek to guide and encourage change. It must take into account the needs of people who already live here. It must look to improve their quality of life and, in an era where environmental concerns are coming increasingly to the fore, it must seek to ensure the environment that is handed on to future generations is better than that inherited from the past. It must give expression to the Government's stated intention to work towards ensuring that development and growth are sustainable. With all of this in mind the Council has set down a number of objectives to provide the basis for the Plan. INTRODUCTION OBJECTIVES I. IMPROVING THE CITY AS A PLACE TO LIVE, WORK AND VISIT Improve the housing stock and housing environment. Maintain the City's high quality residential areas as places where people wish to remain. Foster the cleanest City in the region. Improve public transport in all its forms as part of a transportation system which is better balanced between public and private transport than at present. Upgrade the appearance of all radial routes (road, rail and waterway) such that they become attractive and welcoming. Establish a strategic network of green routes based upon river valleys, canals and parks for pedestrians and cyclists. Protect and enhance Manchester's Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian architectural and historic heritage. Promote a safer environment for all, but especially for women and children. Improve and add to the City's stock of sporting and recreational facilities, both to enhance the quality of life and to support the City's international reputation.
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