Contaminated Denton land set to be used for housing poses a health risk for future residents hoping to grow their own fruit and vegetables, according to a Labour MP.

Trafford Council fracking plans in Davyhulme have been stopped after lobby group Friends of the Earth (FotE) drilled holes in their plans.

Developers are being urged to keep their hands off a plot of open-space grassland in the Castlefield canal basin – with a Manchester councillor hoping it stays development-free.

Anti-fracking campaigners in Trafford are concerned their ‘voices are not being heard’ despite collecting 1,500 signatures opposing plans to drill for gas in Davyhulme.

Stockport residents have reacted with outrage at council plans which will see new houses built in Reddish Vale Country Park, as part of a project design to redevelop Brinnington.

A £1billion Campus Masterplan by the University of Manchester has taken its next step – by signing a deal to develop a 326-room hotel on its Oxford Road campus.

A new planning application has been submitted for the proposed Lord Foster-designed Maggie’s Centre at The Christie.

Plans for a Northern Quarter strip club have been rejected by Manchester planning chiefs

A ‘sleazy’ strip club and lap dancing bar could be destined for Manchester’s Northern Quarter

More than 100 people protested outside the site

FOI request shows council failings, say group