Salford's development plan

Salford’s development plan currently comprises:

• Salford Local Plan: Development Management Policies and Designations and associated Policies Map

• Places for Everyone joint development plan document, and associated policies map

• Greater Manchester Joint Waste Development Plan document

• Greater Manchester Joint Minerals Development Plan document
  

Decisions on planning applications must be made in line with the development plan, unless there are clear material considerations which dictate why this should not be the case.

Separate downloadable policies maps for the each of the above documents are available to download by following the above links. In addition, an interactive policies map has been produced which brings together the separate downloadable policies maps onto one map.

Note that the Places for Everyone Green Belt boundary supersedes that identified on the policies map for the Salford Local Plan: Development Management Policies and Designations.

Other development plan documents being produced

The Salford Local Plan is being produced in two parts:

• Part one: Salford Local Plan: Development Management Policies and Designations (SLP:DMP), which was adopted on 18 January 2023.

• Part two: Salford Local Plan: Core Strategy and Allocations (SLP:CSA), which is currently under production.

Local nature recovery strategy 

The Greater Manchester local nature recovery strategy was launched in September 2025. It includes a map showing the Greater Manchester nature network. The strategy will inform the application of planning policies in the development plan, including policies GI1 and BG2 of the SLP:DMP, and policies JP-G2 and JP-G8 of Places for Everyone. 

Local Development Scheme

The Local Development Scheme (LDS) identifies Salford’s adopted planning policy framework, and the profile of the emerging Salford Local Plan: Core Strategy and Allocations document (including the timetable for its production). This can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

This page was last updated on 31 July 2026