Agenda and decisions

1. That apologies be received and noted from Councillor David Greenhalgh (Bolton), Joanne Roney (Manchester) and Pam Smith (Stockport).

2. That apologies from Councillor Martyn Cox (Bolton), who was unable to join due to technical difficulties be noted.

There were no Chairs announcements or items of urgent business.

To receive declarations of interest in any item for discussion at the meeting. A blank form for declaring interests has been circulated with the agenda; please ensure that this is returned to the Governance & Scrutiny Officer at the start of the meeting.

There were no declarations of interests received.

To consider the approval of the minutes of the AGMA Executive Board held 30 October 2020.

That the minutes of the meeting held on 30 October 2020 be approved as a correct record.

Report of Salford City Mayor, Paul Dennett, Portfolio Lead for Housing, Homelessness and Infrastructure.

1.      That the preparation of a Joint Development Plan Document of the nine GM Local Authorities, as set out in Section 3 of the report, be agreed in principle.

2.      That a further report addressing the issues, set out in Section 3 of the report, be submitted to a future meeting.

3.      That the nine GM Local authorities be commended to establish a joint committee,  with delegated authorityto co-ordinate and develop a Joint Plan on their behalf as the nine local planning authorities.