Draft Trafford Local Plan - Site Allocations and Designations - September 2025

Closes 3 Nov 2025

Opened 22 Sep 2025

Overview

Trafford Council invites you to make comments on the content and policies of the Draft Trafford Local Plan: Site Allocations and Designations, covering sites for residential and employment development, as well as open space designations. Comments are invited from 22 September 2025 until 23:59 on 03 November 2025.  

Consultation Documents 

The consultation includes the following documents: 

  • Regulation 18 Consultation Draft Trafford Local Plan – Site Allocations and Designations (September 2025)
  • Integrated Assessment Report (IA), including:
    • Sustainability Appraisal
    • Equalities Impact Assessment
    • Health Impact Assessment
  • Integrated Assessment (IA) Scoping Report Addendum
  • Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) 
  • Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) 
  • Site Selection Methodology

These are all available to view / comment via the 'Online Survey' link at the bottom of this page.

Contact us  

If you have any questions about the Trafford Local Plan , or, if you would like to be kept informed about planning policy matters, such as the Local Plan, please email localplan.consultation@trafford.gov.uk or call us on 0161 912 3149.  

Data protection 

We maintain a database of consultees who want to be kept informed about planning policy matters such as the Local Plan. Individuals or organisations that would like to be added to or removed from our consultation database should email strategic.planning@trafford.gov.uk or call us on 0161 912 3149.

In responding to consultations your contact details will automatically be added to the consultation database (if not already held). However, we will not automatically notify you of future consultations unless you ‘opt in’ on your consultation response. If you do not state you want to be on the consultation database, it will be assumed that you do not want to be notified of future consultations.

All comments received during Strategic Planning consultations will be held by us for the production of the document that is being consulted on and they will be available to view publicly (including on our website). Comments cannot be treated as confidential. Your personal information such as your postal and email address will not be published, but your name and organisation (if relevant) will.

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