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Back us to deliver a new decade of growth: Greater Manchester moves ahead with growth pipeline plans


  • Greater Manchester progressing plans for 10-year pipeline of projects to drive growth, build new homes, and tackle inequalities
  • New Development Forum will bring together partners across property and construction and give clarity over long-term plans
  • MappingGM platform to offer visual, interactive map of housing and employment sites across Greater Manchester
  • Whole-system approach designed to mobilise investment and deliver prosperity for people and places across the city-region

Greater Manchester is driving forward with its plan to drive the next decade of growth by launching a new Development Forum and an interactive map of development sites. 

Earlier this year, the city-region's leaders unveiled a ten-year plan to turbocharge growth by delivering tens of thousands of new homes, creating thousands of good jobs through major new employment sites, and unlocking massive private sector investment.

Greater Manchester is creating a single Integrated Pipeline for growth, which will target investment at six Growth Locations across the city-region – our areas with the biggest potential to boost growth and deliver benefits across all 10 boroughs.

As part of this plan, Greater Manchester is launching a new Development Forum to better engage with key partners across the construction, property, and investment sectors.

The Forum will bring together developers, investors, and others across these sectors, helping to provide clarity on long-term plans for growth, and enabling them to find the right solutions that will help deliver new development at pace and scale across the city-region.

Further details about the Development Forum and its programme of work are set to be unveiled at the Housing 2025 conference in Manchester next month.

Also launched today, a new tool on the MappingGM platform will – for the first time – give developers, investors, and residents a new interactive way to explore what the integrated pipeline means in practice.

By clearly showing land supply, transport infrastructure, and energy networks, it will help to set out the potential for well-connected development across Greater Manchester’s six Growth Locations.

The first version of the map is now available, and will be developed further over the next 18 months.

Last week Greater Manchester leaders attended UKREiiF, the country’s biggest investment and regeneration conference, where they set out the city-region’s case as the UK’s outstanding investment opportunity.

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said:

“Right now, the message coming from across the North is loud and clear: back us to deliver economic growth and unleash the potential of our places. Our future will be built from the bottom up, not the top down.

“In Greater Manchester we're using our devolved powers to unlock transformative regeneration projects across our city-region. We’ve had a decade of growth above the UK average, and with the right support we can go even further.

“With a clear offer on the table for Government and investors, focused on our Growth Locations, we’re creating a blueprint for building thousands of new homes, creating high-quality jobs, and delivering a decade of prosperity.”

Cllr Bev Craig, Leader of Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Lead for Economy, Business and Inclusive Growth, said:

“Greater Manchester's growth has outpaced the rest of the country over the past decade. But the next 10 years could yet be the most exciting in our history, if we can work with Government to unlock major new investment and remove the blockers to future growth.

“Our success has been built on collaboration, innovation, and strong partnerships that get everyone pulling in the same direction. Now, we’re putting in place all of the pieces that will help deliver transformative economic growth for the next generation.”

Greater Manchester's integrated pipeline will bring together transport, housing, innovation, and the net-zero economy to deliver well-connected developments and pave the way for new investment to unlock jobs and growth.

We will also create a single investment pot to target funding at these Growth Locations, using the greater flexibility over finances agreed as part of the Trailblazer devolution deal with government – delivering just enough pump-priming to unleash private sector capital.

Article Published: 30/05/2025 15:43 PM