The Manchester Local Plan guides development within Manchester. It was previously known as the Local Development Framework.
It consists of the:
- Core Strategy the key document in the Local Plan
- 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