Decision Maker: Cabinet

Outcome: Recommendations approved

Is Key Decision?: Yes

Is Callable In?: Yes

Date of Decision: June 24, 2025

Purpose: Subject to a subsequent decision to be made by Council to approve, in principle, the making of a joint development plan document with the other 9 Greater Manchester councils (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan), to cover planning for minerals and waste across Greater Manchester, the Cabinet to delegate to AGMA Executive Board the formulating and preparing of the joint development plan document to cover planning for minerals and waste across Greater Manchester insofar as such matters are executive functions (including agreeing a timetable for the preparation of the plan).

Content: The Cabinet noted that Greater Manchester leaders at the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) Executive Board meeting on 28 March 2025 had agreed to the production of a statutory Greater Manchester Joint Minerals and Waste Plan (GMJMWP) for Greater Manchester and then considered a report that detailed the necessary resultant steps required in relation to the decision making process.   The Cabinet has then agreed, subject to the Council Meeting approving, in principle to the making of a joint development plan document with the other 9 Greater Manchester councils (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan) to cover planning for minerals and waste across Greater Manchester, to:-   (1)  Delegate to AGMA Executive Board the formulating and preparing of the joint development plan document to cover planning for minerals and waste across Greater Manchester insofar as such matters are executive functions.   (2) Note that the following are the sole responsibility of the Council Meeting:-   (a) Responsibility for giving of instructions to the executive to reconsider the draft plan submitted by the executive for the authority’s consideration.   (b) The amendment of the draft joint development plan document submitted by the executive for the council’s consideration.   (c) The approval of the joint development plan document for the purposes of submission to the Secretary of State for independent examination.   (d) The adoption of the joint development plan document.

Alternative options considered: None.