Research: Planning and Housing

Overview

The Planning and Housing team is responsible for providing a solid evidence base to help shape strategy and policy relating to planning, housing and homelessness in Greater Manchester, striving to improve our population's housing and planning policies. Examples of this include:

Developing the evidence base for the Places for Everyone Joint Plan (previously known as the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework);
Managing and maintaining MappingGM; and
Providing timely statistics and evidence on Greater Manchester's housing market and homelessness to inform policymakers.

This means that we work closely with the Planning Policy and Housing Strategy teams at the Combined Authority.

About Our Team

Our aim as a team is to provide analysis and insight to ultimately improve housing standards in Greater Manchester and reduce inequalities.

Our team is made up of two Principals, a Lead Analyst and Analyst. Together we have a range of skills including data analysis and visualisation; advanced Excel skills; analytical and GIS software; qualitative research methods and analysis; and scoping complex projects. Team members have worked in various settings: the social housing sector; the not-for-profit sector; consultancy; and xxx.

Our Work

The next section sets out some of the key projects, both past and ongoing, that our team have produced.

Evidence Base for Joint Plan

Our team provide research for Greater Manchester's joint plan evidence base...

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GMSF evidence base.

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MappingGM

The home of Greater Manchester mapped data. MappingGM provides a range of maps that you can use to explore Greater Manchester’s housing, planning, infrastructure, socio-economic and demographic data. The maps are open for you to use, and most of the data used is freely available to download. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum...

Click here to view MappingGM

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Interactive Housing Market Data

The Greater Manchester Housing Market Monitor is an interactive dashboard that features a number of key housing market data, such as the average house price per Greater Manchester district, the number of houses built per year and much more. We built this dashboard with the aim of supporting the Housing Strategy team at the Combined Authority so they could have quick and easy access to housing market data that they use regularly. It is also open to the public, and we welcome any feedback on the information and accessibility to ensure that it's as useful and comprehensive as possible.

This dashboard is updated continually as and when new data is released, and most of the data used is freely available to download.

Click here to view the Interactive Housing Market Data

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