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Homes, Spaces, Places
Help shape the future of housing and spaces in Tameside.
What is Homes Spaces Places?
Homes, Spaces, Places (HSP) is Tameside Council’s Local Plan, complementing the Greater Manchester Places for Everyone strategy. It sets out a long-term vision and planning framework for Tameside up to 2042, focusing on:
- Housing: Delivering suitable and affordable homes.
- Jobs & Economy: Supporting growth and vibrant town centres.
- Transport: Improving travel and reducing congestion.
- Environment: Responding to climate change and protecting biodiversity.
- Places & Heritage: Enhancing character and identity.
- Community Infrastructure: Health, education, and social facilities.
The plan allocates land for development and protection, establishes detailed policies, and ensures infrastructure delivery
The HSP Plan is scheduled for Regulation 19 public consultation in late summer/autumn 2026.
Why it matters
- Shapes Tameside’s future – deciding where homes, jobs, and services will go.
- Supports growth and sustainability – balancing development with climate goals.
- Protects what’s important – green spaces, heritage, and community character.
- Improves everyday life – better transport, housing choices, and local facilities.
- Your voice counts – plans are based on public input.
What's happened so far
Consultation Stages
Scoping > Options and Preferences > Preferred Options Plan
2023: Scoping Report published to define priorities and assessment framework.
2024: An initial consultation gathered views on key issues. We consulted on a scoping and issues plan contains the seven key themes from 8 July 2024 to 16 September 2024. Find out more about the Scoping stage
2025: The Options and Preferences consultation launched (April–June), presenting draft policies and site proposals for comment. Find out more about the Options and preferences stage
2025-2026: Preferred Option consultation. This consultation ran from 19 December 2025 to 20 February 2026. The responses to the consultation can be found below.
- Consultation Responses A-C
- Consultation Responses C-J
- Consultation Responses J-K
- Consultation Responses K-M
- Consultation Responses M-S
- Consultation Responses S-Z
Notice of update to the consultation
The Council adjusted its Homes, Spaces, Places Preferred Option Consultation Draft Local Plan and supporting information on 23 December 2025. Please can you ensure when responding to the consultation that you review the updated version of the plan which is now available using the link further down this page.
What is the change?
The housing and employment allocation HSP S2E: Allocation 1: Land northwest of Junction 24 has been removed from the plan. Consequential amendments to Policy HSP S2E: Audenshaw have been made to remove reference to the allocation in the policy text and renumber the remaining development allocations and the policy criteria.
Consequential amendments have been made elsewhere in the plan and supporting information to remove reference to the allocation, namely removing a criterion from Policy HSP S2F: Denton that referenced the allocation and renumbering of the remaining policy criteria, revising the housing and employment land supply figures throughout Chapter 5 Spatial Framework, and updating the page numbering and contents pages.
Separately there have been some typographical corrections made at points throughout the plan.
Why has this change been made?
After further consideration, the allocation is not considered likely to be substantively deliverable within the plan period and therefore has been removed as an allocation and from the indicated housing and employment land supply within the plan.
Key Documents
Read the Preferred Options Plan
- HSP Preferred Option Draft Plan (Accessible version)
- Homes, Spaces, Places Preferred Option Consultation Draft Plan
- Homes, Spaces, Places Preferred Option Consultation Draft Plan Non-Technical Summary
View the Policies Map
Supporting Documents
- HSP Integrated Assessment of Preferred Draft Plan December 2025
- HSP Integrated Assessment of Preferred Draft Plan Non-Technical Summary
- Habitat Regulations Assessment November 2025
- Evidence Base
- View the plans in person
Documents can also be viewed both electronically or in paper form at the Council’s main office in Ashton-under-Lyne and other Tameside Council libraries during their normal opening hours during the consultation period see https://www.tameside.gov.uk/libraries/openingtimes for library opening hours.