Shelter Response - Manchester City Council Local Plan Issues Consultation

In Manchester, the number of people recorded as homeless, including those in temporary accommodation, has risen nearly nine-fold between 2010 and 2019 from 722 in 6,294.

The process informing the development of a new Local Plan for Manchester provides a key opportunity to identify and establish planning policy measures that can help the Council to tackle its housing emergency, and to help ensure that everyone who needs and wants to make this city their home can do.

Scaled-up delivery of social-rent housing, by both the Council and housing developers, is what is needed to tackle Manchester’s housing emergency.