Update on SGMGB Judicial Review from the SGMGB Management Committee This blog updates you on the current status of our Judicial Review (JR) claim and to encourage you to do all you can to help us raise the funding (£100,000) we need to continue with our claim. There are 11 defendants in total: the Secretary of […]
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Save Our Green Belt: Help Us Fight for a Sustainable Future! Greater Manchester’s Green Belt, a vital shield for our environment and communities, is under threat. The “Places for Everyone” plan proposes releasing over 2,000 hectares of environmentally-precious, ecologically-rich green spaces for development, jeopardising nature’s recovery, climate mitigation and our health and well-being. Save Greater
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Interview was on the 17th October 2023 at 17.32pm Whose Plan is it anyway? Places for Everyone – the apocalyptic 17-year plan that will have an extremely damaging impact on communities across Greater Manchester (both human & wildlife) is still being challenged! Please click here to download a hard copy of this press release. As
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Lending Support to Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt Group but not sure how YOU can help? Read on – because there are 3 things you can do! Dear SGMGB SupporterAs you know, Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt Group is an umbrella body forover 40 community organisations across Greater Manchester. We represent theviews of those
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The SGMGB Annual General Meeting was held on 4th September 2023. Please find all details on the following links AGM Agenda AGM Minutes Chair’s report Accounts. Share on facebook Share on twitter Spread the Word!
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Unnecessary Release of Green Belt in the Places for Everyone Spatial Plan Open Letter to Councillors in Districts supporting the Unnecessary Release of Green Belt in the Places for Everyone Spatial Plan Dear Councillor The Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt Group is an umbrella body for over 40 community organisations across Greater Manchester. You will
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Confusing Green Belt messages from our politicians! Communities are delighted that the Conservative Party continues to pledge to retain the Green Belt, despite Sir Keir Starmer’s recent vow to concrete it over! But ……. That pledge does not secure actual protection for our Green Belt. Despite the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) paragraphs 140 and
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SGMGB’s responses to Call for Evidence: Protected Sites for Nature in England and Northern Ireland and Lords Built Environment Committee 14th April 2023 SGMGB has provided wiritten responses to The Lords Built Environment Committee regarding The Impact of Environmental Regulations on Development. You can read our response here and Call for Evidence: Protected Sites for
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Letter to Tameside Planning Inspectors re Matley Lane Hyde 14th April 2023 Dear Tameside Planning Department Objection to Planning Reference 23/00157/OUT The Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt Group (SGMGB) objects to this application for the following reasons (which are outlined in more detail in the paragraphs below): the application conflicts with National Policy: the site
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Letter to P4E Planning Inspectors The SGMGB Management Committee has raised a number of issues with the Planning Inspectors who are Examining the Places for Everyone Spatial Plan. We have concerns about the significant changes that are being proposed by the GMCA, which mean that the Plan is considerably different to that which was consulted
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Letter to Sir Keir Starmer January 2023 Save Greater Manchester’s Green Belt Group and Steady State Manchester have written to the leader of the Opposition (Sir Keir Starmer) on behalf of a number of GM community groups to provide evidence about the lack of justification for the release of Green Belt. We have also requested
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SGMGB responds to Places for Everyone Consultation October 2022 Matter 1 Matter 2 Matter 3 Matter 4 The Planning Inspectors issued their Matters, Issues and Questions (known as MIQs) in July 2022, with responses due back in September and October 2022. The Hearings commence in November 2022, the details of the individual sessions have been
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