Oldham councillors have voted to pull out of its adopted joint development plan with eight other Greater Manchester local authorities.

Oldham Borough Council has voted to be removed from Places for Everyone (PfE), due to concerns the plan would lead to the loss of green belt sites in order to enable a housing strategy “focused solely on developer profit”.  The vote means the council’s leaders are now required to write to housing secretary Angela Rayner to formally request Oldham’s removal from the strategy. A report by officers warned that the housing secretary has never been asked to revoke a newly-adopted local or joint plan before.