This layer represents completed and planned Active Travel Programme infrastructure points & routes (subject to LTP consultation).

Transport for Greater Manchester

2025

The inventory identifies over 52,000 ancient woodland sites in England. The Ancient Woodland Inventory identifies over 52,000 ancient woodland sites in England. Ancient woodland is identified using presence or absence of woods from old maps, information about the wood's name, shape, internal boundaries, location relative to other features, ground survey, and aerial photography. The information recorded about each wood and stored on the Inventory Database includes its grid reference, its area in hectares and how much is semi-natural or replanted. Guidance document can be found on our Amazon Cloud Service Prior to the digitisation of the boundaries, only paper maps depicting each ancient wood at 1:50 000 scale were available. Full metadata can be viewed on data.gov.uk.

Natural England

24 May 2024

The map layer shows the average download speed presented in Mbps for each lower super output area from 2011 in Greater Manchester. The data is sourced from the Spring 2024 update of the Connected Nations report from Ofcom, released in April 2024. The information is originally provided at output area level, but is calculated from this for 2011 LSOAs. The data table on the map also presents other useful information from the Connected Nations data, including the average upload speed in Mbps, and the maximum and median upload and download speeds.

Ofcom

January 2024

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is the only official, up to date, register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England - listed buildings, scheduled monuments, protected wrecks, registered parks and gardens, and battlefields. This data uses the British National Grid (EPSG:27700) spatial reference. It contains points and polygons for Listed Buildings, Building Preservation Notices and Certificates of Immunity. Data is updated daily. This is a form of ‘temporary’ listing. Local authorities have the power to serve a BPN on the owner of a building which is not listed, but which is of special architectural/historical interest and in danger of being demolished or altered. A BPN lasts for a period of six months and in effect makes an unlisted building subject to the same rules as if it were listed. This allows time for a formal assessment to be carried out.

Historic England

08 July 2025

This layer represents improvements to bus infrastructure across Greater Manchester (subject to LTP consultation).

Transport for Greater Manchester

2025

This dataset consists of map files which show bus routes covering the Greater Manchester area. The dataset is available in MapInfo .tab, Google .kml, and ESRI .shp file formats. Please acknowledge the source of this information using the following attribution statement: Contains Transport for Greater Manchester data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.

Transport for Greater Manchester

23rd April 2025

The city centre of Greater Manchester is located across central Manchester and Salford.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2025

Conservation Areas in England as designated by Local Planning Authorities and compiled by Historic England Conservation areas exist to manage and protect the special architectural and historic interest of a place - in other words, the features that make it unique. Every local authority in England has at least one conservation area and there are around 10,000 in England.Most conservation areas are designated by the Council as the local planning authority. In conservation areas there are some extra planning controls and considerations in place to protect the historic and architectural elements which make the place special. This national dataset is “indicative” not “definitive”. Definitive information can only be provided by individual local authorities and you should refer directly to their information for all purposes that require the most up to date and complete dataset. Conservation area data has not been supplied for all local authority areas. Local authority areas without conservation area data are attributed with 'No data available for publication by HE'. Data is updated as necessary when new data is received. Further details are available on our website here -https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/local/conservation-areas/ Historic England Open Data Hub -https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/open-data-hub/

Historic England

04 July 2025

© Historic England 2025

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.

More than 400 Country Parks exist. They are public green spaces often at the edge of urban areas which provide places to enjoy the outdoors and experience nature in an informal semi-rural park setting. Country Parks normally have some facilities such as a car park, toilets, perhaps a cafe or kiosk, paths and trails, and visitor information. There is not necessarily public right of access, although most are publicly accessible; some charge entry others do not. Most are owned and managed by Local Authorities. Many Country Parks were designated in the 1970s by the then Countryside Commission, under the Countryside Act 1968. More recently Country Parks have been created under a less formal arrangement and Natural England is working with partners to encourage a renaissance and accreditation of parks which meet certain criteria. The dataset contains boundaries of each Country Park, digitised against Ordnance Survey MasterMap using source maps supplied by Local Authorities. If you are an owner/manager of a Country Park and would like to tell Natural England about a boundary change please contact. © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.

Natural England

1st December 2011

This is a spatial dataset that defines the non-designated geographic extent and location of Historic Parklands in England, as depicted in the OS Historic Maps (2nd Edition and Hills Edition). This is a spatial dataset that defines the non-designated geographic extent and location of Historic Parklands in England, as depicted in the OS Historic Maps (2nd Edition and Hills Edition). Regularly updated aerial imagery has been used to ensure high spatial accuracy. The mapping scale is 1:1,000. This dataset, alongside the designated landscapes within the Historic England Registered Parks and Gardens layers, and HER searches can provide a comprehensive understanding of the maximum historic extent of Parklands. Historic parklands are uniquely placed to deliver integrated multi-objective benefits for the historic and natural environments. They are a finite and non-renewable resource, and they remain working landscapes. Through active management, their countless interests can be secured to great public benefit. This dataset was developed using multiple reference layers, each contributing unique value. The layers are listed below in order of precedence for decision-making: Aerial Photography of Great Britain – High-resolution imagery used for precise boundary verification of historic parklands. OS 2nd Edition Historic Map (1888–1913) – Detailed topographic maps capturing landscape changes during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, with a - particular focus on Parks and Ornamental Grounds. OS Hills Edition Historic Map (1885–1903) – One-inch-to-the-mile maps with shaded relief, providing insights into terrain and historical land use, with a specific emphasis on Parks and Ornamental Grounds. HE Registered Parks and Gardens (RPG) – Contains designated historic parkland names and boundaries. NE Wood Pasture and Parkland – Represents vegetation structure rather than historic features, used selectively when other sources are unavailable, although it has limited relevance for defining parkland boundaries. NE Ancient Woodland – Depicts ancient woodlands but has limited relevance for defining parkland boundaries. NE Historic Parkland – A pre-existing dataset with low spatial accuracy and no metadata, serving as a reference layer for areas requiring review (targeting only).

Natural England

23 June 2025

The Environment Agency programme of work which aims to reduce the risk of flooding from rivers, sea, groundwater or surface water and/or to reduce the risks from coastal erosion.

Environment Agency

2025

The Flood Map for Planning Service includes several layers of information. This includes the Flood Zones data which shows the extent of land at present day risk of flooding from rivers and the sea, ignoring the benefits of defences, for the following scenarios: • Flood Zone 1 – Land having a less than 0.1% (1 in 1000) annual probability of flooding. • Flood Zone 2 – Land having between 0.1% - 1% (1 in 100 to 1 in 1000) annual probability of flooding from rivers or between 0.1% - 0.5% (1 in 200 to 1 in 1000) annual probability of flooding from the sea, and accepted recorded flood outlines . • Flood Zone 3 – Areas shown to be at a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual probability of flooding from rivers or 0.5% (1 in 200) or greater annual probability of flooding from the sea. Flood Zone 1 is not shown in this dataset, but covers all areas not contained within Flood Zones 2 and 3. Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) use the Flood Zones to determine if they must consult the Environment Agency on planning applications. They are also used to determine if development is incompatible and whether development is subject to the exception test. The Flood Zones are one of several flood risk datasets used to determine the need for planning applications to be supported by a Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) and subject to the sequential test. The Flood Zones are a composite dataset including national and local modelled data, and information from past floods. The Flood Zones are designed to only give an indication of flood risk to an area of land and are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk of flooding. This is because we cannot know all the details about each property. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Environment Agency

29th January 2025

This layer represents a mix of planned, proposed and potential schemes as part of the Future Rapid Transit Programme (subject to LTP consultation) including ‘next generation’ Metrolink fleet, depots and stabling, the Bury-Heywood-Rochdale-Oldham tram-train ‘Pathfinder’, and new lines and extensions.

Transport for Greater Manchester

2025

The boundary for the city region of Greater Manchester. The boundary covers the ten local authority areas of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan. The data is sourced from ONS' administrative boundary datasets. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025

Office for National Statistics

December 2023

This dataset was published by MHCLG and accessed via data.gov.uk. Local authorities digitise areas of land designated as Green Belt and send the Green Belt boundaries to MHCLG. The local authority Green Belt boundaries are merged and quality assured by MHCLG and are mapped against OS and ONS Local Authority District (Mean High Water mark) boundaries for the corresponding period. Data from December 2024. Accessed April 2025.

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

5th December 2024

Our six Growth Locations represent opportunities for the whole city-region to bring forward development at a scale which can drive the transformational change we want to see across Greater Manchester to deliver the Greater Manchester Strategy and Government’s Growth Mission.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2025

The Growth Zones form boundaries within which Greater Manchester is able to retain business rates growth over the next 25 years.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2025

The Historic Environment Opportunity Map for New Woodland dataset identifies areas in England that may be suitable for new woodland, based solely on available Historic Environment data. The dataset categorises land by different opportunity ratings to reflect the potential suitability of land for woodland creation while acknowledging areas of uncertainty due to data availability. The purpose of this dataset is to guide landowners, planners, and decision-makers in considering woodland creation from a historic environment perspective. It should be noted that this dataset only considers the Historic Environment and therefore the opportunity ratings do not guarantee or preclude approval for woodland creation proposals. As any forestry proposal could have the potential to affect the Historic Environment you should contact your local historic environment service. The local historic environment service can provide further data to support woodland creation proposals. NHLE is the official, up to date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England. SHINE is a single, nationally consistent dataset of non-designated historic and archaeological features from across England that could benefit from land management schemes. The opportunity ratings are as defined: · Favourable - Areas deemed suitable for new woodland on consideration of available Historic Environment data. · Neutral - Areas deemed neither favourable nor unfavourable for new woodland on consideration of available Historic Environment data. Proposals in these areas will require additional consideration of the Historic Environment on a case-by-case basis. · Unclassified - Areas, where SHINE data has been supplied, with no assigned opportunity rating. This illustrates a current absence of recorded data from a Historic Environment perspective. However, as SHINE data is included in the dataset for this area, a degree of confidence may be inferred when considering the absence of historic environment features. · Unclassified (No SHINE supplied) - Areas, where SHINE data has not been supplied, with no assigned opportunity rating. This illustrates a current absence of recorded data from a Historic Environment perspective. · Unsuitable - Areas deemed unsuitable for new woodland on consideration of available Historic Environment data. Unclassified areas may be suitable or unsuitable for new woodland. To better understand these areas, contact the local historic environment service in accordance with the UKFS and Historic Environment Guidance for Forestry in England - GOV.UK The datasets included in each opportunity rating are as follows: Favourable · Lost Historic Woodlands (ArchAI/Forestry Commission) – An A.I. dataset that identifies areas of woodland depicted on early 20th Century Ordnance Survey mapping which have since been lost. Neutral · Historic Parklands (Zulu Ecosystems) – an A.I. dataset that identifies areas of parkland depicted on early 20th Century Ordnance Survey mapping. · World Heritage Site Core data (Historic England) – Core areas of World Heritage Sites, as designated by UNESCO. · World Heritage Site Buffer (Historic England) – Buffer zones surrounding World Heritage Sites, as designated by UNESCO. · Ridge and Furrow (Low) (ArchAI) – an A.I. dataset that identifies areas of less well-preserved historic ridge and furrow derived from LiDAR data. Unclassified · HER Boundaries (SHINE supplied) – Geographic areas covered by local historic environment services, where SHINE data has been supplied to the Forestry Commission. · HER Boundaries (No SHINE supplied) - Geographic areas covered by local historic environment services where SHINE data has not been supplied to the Forestry Commission. Unsuitable · Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) (local historic environment services) – regional datasets that provide information on the historic character of the landscape. · Scheduled Monuments (Historic England) – Protected archaeological sites of national importance. · Scheduled Monuments Buffer – A 20 metre buffer surrounding Scheduled Monuments in-line with UKFS. · Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England (SHINE)(local historic environment services) – National dataset of non-designated heritage assets. · Registered Parks and Gardens (Historic England) – Parks and Gardens designated as being of national significance. · Registered Battlefields (Historic England) – Battlefields designated as being of national significance. · Ridge and Furrow (High) (ArchAI) – an A.I. dataset that identifies areas of well-preserved historic ridge and furrow derived from LiDAR data.

Forestry Commission

08 April 2025

An index ranking of small geographies (2011 lower super output areas) based on a deprivation score. The score is derived from a multitude of different data sources that indicate levels of deprivation in an area. Areas are grouped into deciles of deprivation, with a higher score and ranking (or a lower decile) indicating higher levels of deprivation in the area.

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

2019

Investment Zones are areas across the UK where central and local government will work with businesses, higher education institutions and other local partners to develop growth opportunities for investment and innovation. Greater Manchester's Investment Zones will focus on the advanced materials and manufacturing sector and form boundaries within which Greater Manchester is able to retain business rates growth over the next 25 years.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2025

WFD Lake Waterbodies Cycle 2 is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing Water Framework Directive (WFD) attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive. Article 2, clause 5 of the WFD defines them as '…a body of standing inland surface water'. There is data on the physical characteristics, risk, classification and proposed objectives that can be linked to waterbodies by their unique identifiers. Artificial and modified lake waterbodies are included within this dataset, however, generally only lakes above > 50 hectares were assessed under the WFD except for lakes in protected areas, where a minimum of 5.0ha was used. Lakes below this threshold are not included within this dataset unless allocated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) as supplied by Natural England. Any lake judged to be a drinking water protected area was also included. Each waterbody has been assigned 'WB_ID', which is a unique identifier that enables a link to WFD attributes. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013.

Environment Agency

30th October 2014

This dataset shows the land identified for future housing development in 2021. For each site, the expected number of dwellings is identified, along with an estimation of when these dwellings will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site.

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan)

2021

This dataset shows the land identified for future housing development in 2022. For each site, the expected number of dwellings is identified, along with an estimation of when these dwellings will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site.

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan)

2022

This dataset shows the land identified for future housing development in 2023. For each site, the expected number of dwellings is identified, along with an estimation of when these dwellings will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site.

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan)

2023

This dataset shows the land identified for future housing development in 2024. For each site, the expected number of dwellings is identified, along with an estimation of when these dwellings will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site.

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan)

2024

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This dataset shows the land identified for future industrial/warehousing development in 2021. For each site, the expected number of gross floorspace (sqm) is identified, along with an estimation of when these developments will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)

2021

This dataset shows the land identified for future industrial/warehousing development in 2022. For each site, the expected number of gross floorspace (sqm) is identified, along with an estimation of when these developments will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)

2022

This dataset shows the land identified for future industrial/warehousing development in 2023. For each site, the expected number of gross floorspace (sqm) is identified, along with an estimation of when these developments will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)

2023

This dataset shows the land identified for future industrial/warehousing development in 2024. For each site, the expected number of gross floorspace (sqm) is identified, along with an estimation of when these developments will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)

2024

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This dataset shows the land identified for future office development in 2021. For each site, the expected number of gross floorspace (sqm) is identified, along with an estimation of when these developments will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site.

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)

2021

This dataset shows the land identified for future office development in 2022. For each site, the expected number of gross floorspace (sqm) is identified, along with an estimation of when these developments will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site.

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)

2022

This dataset shows the land identified for future office development in 2023. For each site, the expected number of gross floorspace (sqm) is identified, along with an estimation of when these developments will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site.

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)

2023

This dataset shows the land identified for future office development in 2024. For each site, the expected number of gross floorspace (sqm) is identified, along with an estimation of when these developments will be completed. Further details about the site, such as planning status and land type, are provided in the popup when you click on any site.

Greater Manchester local authorities (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan)

2024

Active Places database extract which includes all site level information of leisure facilities. Sport England manage and maintain the national sports facility database Active Places. The database records 15 facility types (example facility types include grass pitches, swimming pools, sports halls) with over 200 attributes used to describe a facility and its associated site. At present the database holds information on c. 115,000 sports facilities, located at c. 41,000 sites. The database is updated daily with each facility being audited on a rolling annual basis.  Additional information on the data model can be found at Active Places Power. This dataset covers sites that are open and within Greater Manchester.

Sport England

11 July 2025

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is the only official, up to date, register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England - listed buildings, scheduled monuments, protected wrecks, registered parks and gardens, and battlefields. This data uses the British National Grid (EPSG:27700) spatial reference. It contains points and polygons for Listed Buildings, Building Preservation Notices and Certificates of Immunity. Data is updated daily. When a building is recognised as being of special architectural or historic interest it is added to the statutory ‘List’. This is compiled by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on advice from Historic England. Buildings on the List are given one of three grades which denote their level of importance, Grade I being the highest and Grade II the lowest: Grade I (one): of exceptional interest Grade II* (two star): particularly important Grade II (two): of special interest Structures that might not be classified as ‘buildings’ (such as railings, gate piers, walls, war memorials, gravestones, post boxes and telephone boxes) can all be Listed Buildings. Related to Listed Buildings are Certificates of Immunity (COI) and Building Preservation Notices (BPN).

Historic England

08 July 2025

The full boundaries of the ten local authorities in Greater Manchester - Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The data is sourced from ONS' administrative boundary datasets. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025

Office for National Statistics

December 2022

Local Authorities are currently working on plans to bring forward low-carbon heat networks in Strategic Heat Zones across Greater Manchester. A heat network is a distribution system of insulated pipes that takes heat from a central source and delivers it to domestic and non-domestic buildings. The low-carbon heat source might be a facility that utilises heat recovered from industry and urban infrastructure, canals and rivers, or sewers. There are six in development.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2025

The Local Investment Framework (LIF) Areas represent key growth opportunity areas & development programmes within each of Greater Manchester’s Growth Locations.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2025

Local Nature Reserves (LNRs) are a statutory designation made under Section 21 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 by principal local authorities. Parish and Town Councils can also declare LNRs but they must have the powers to do so delegated to them by a principal local authority. LNRs are for people and wildlife. They are places with wildlife or geological features that are of special interest locally. They offer people opportunities to study or learn about nature or simply to enjoy it. They range from windswept coastal headlands, ancient woodlands and flower-rich meadows to former inner city railways, long abandoned landfill sites and industrial areas now re-colonised by wildlife. They are an impressive natural resource which makes an important contribution to England's biodiversity. NB This national dataset is “indicative” not “definitive”. Definitive information can only be provided by individual local authorities and you should refer directly to their information for all purposes that require the most up to date and complete dataset.

Natural England

15 March 2025

The full boundaries of the lower super output areas wards in Greater Manchester - Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The data is sourced from ONS' statistical boundary datasets. Lower Super Output Areas are small geographies containing around 1,500 people on average. They are generated following each Census, with the latest version being originally built following the 2021 Census. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025

Office for National Statistics

December 2021

This mapping dataset represents the present-day operational ‘Metrolink’ network in Greater Manchester. Metrolink is an electrified passenger tramway, using standard gauge rail track (1435mm), and is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester. This data layer represents the lines on the network that are functional. Data last updated February 2022. Contains Transport for Greater Manchester data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2017.

Transport for Greater Manchester

February 2022

This mapping dataset represents the present-day operational ‘Metrolink’ network in Greater Manchester. Metrolink is an electrified passenger tramway, using standard gauge rail track (1435mm), and is owned by Transport for Greater Manchester. This data layer represents the stops on the network that are functional. Data last updated February 2022. Contains Transport for Greater Manchester data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2017.

Transport for Greater Manchester

February 2022

NIAs are areas of the country where partnerships have been set up to enhance the natural environment. NIAs embody an integrated, holistic approach that was signalled in the Natural Environment White Paper and England Biodiversity Strategy, joining up objectives for biodiversity, water, soils, farming and the low-carbon economy to improve the functioning of ecosystems and their services.

Natural England

08 April 2013

This layer details the alignment of the Manchester to Warrington section of the proposed Liverpool to Manchester railway. The proposal between Warrington and Liverpool is yet to be confirmed. The Liverpool to Manchester Railway proposal is subject to confirmation of Government’s 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy in June 2025.

Transport for Greater Manchester

2025

Westminster Parliamentary Constituency boundaries as at July 2024. The Parliamentary constituencies presented are those covering the Greater Manchester city region. The data is sourced from ONS' electoral boundary datasets. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025

Office for National Statistics

July 2024

This layer represents the adopted Places for Everyone (PfE) boundary. Places for Everyone is a long-term joint development plan for the nine Greater Manchester districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The boundary of the PfE area is not contiguous with the full boundaries of these districts.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2024

This layer shows each local authority's current Green Belt land as adopted in the Places for Everyone Joint Plan. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2023

This layer identifies the areas where the Places for Everyone Plan proposed to add further sites to the Green Belt. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2023

This layer represents the adopted Places for Everyone (PfE) boundary, split by each local authority area. Places for Everyone is a long-term joint development plan for the nine Greater Manchester districts of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The boundary of the PfE area is not contiguous with the full boundaries of these districts.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2023

Safeguarded land is located between the urban area and the Green Belt. This land is treated in a similar way to Green Belt except that its protection is not necessarily guaranteed beyond the plan period. Safeguarded Land ensures the protection of Green Belt within the longer time-scale by reserving land which may be required to meet longer-term development needs. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2023

Sites 'allocated' within Places for Everyone and there is a set of allocation policies setting out the approach to development of these sites. Each of the Allocations has a focus on employment, housing or mixed use. Not all of an Allocation's area will be developed. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2024

This layer shows the boundaries of the Principal Town Centres in Greater Manchester. There are nine Principal Town Centres in Greater Manchester: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Stockport, Salford Quays, Altrincham, and Wigan.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2025

The Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) provides a method for assessing the quality of farmland to enable informed choices to be made about its future use within the planning system. It helps underpin the principles of sustainable development. Provisional Agricultural Land Classification Grade. Agricultural land classified into five grades. Grade one is best quality and grade five is poorest quality. A number of consistent criteria used for assessment which include climate (temperature, rainfall, aspect, exposure, frost risk), site (gradient, micro-relief, flood risk) and soil (depth, structure, texture, chemicals, stoniness) for England only. Digitised from the published 1:250,000 map which was in turn compiled from the 1 inch to the mile maps. More information about the Agricultural Land Classification can be found at the following links: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130402200910/http://archive.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/landmanage/land-use/documents/alc-guidelines-1988.pdf http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/35012. Full metadata can be viewed on data.gov.uk.

Natural England

26 November 2024

This layer represents existing heavy rail passenger lines and stations across GM and the planned phases for bringing them into the Bee Network (subject to LTP consultation).

Transport for Greater Manchester

2025

This layer represents a mix of planned, proposed and potential schemes as part of the Rapid Transit Integration Programme (subject to LTP consultation) including Interchange redevelopment, new stops, stop improvements and first/last mile improvements for the rapid transit network.

Transport for Greater Manchester

2025

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is the only official, up to date, register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England - listed buildings, scheduled monuments, protected wrecks, registered parks and gardens, and battlefields. This data uses the British National Grid (EPSG:27700) spatial reference. It contains points and polygons for Listed Buildings, Building Preservation Notices and Certificates of Immunity. Data is updated daily. The 'Register’ of Historic Parks and Gardens was established in 1983, with the emphasis placed on protecting 'designed' landscapes rather than those with botanical importance. The Register safeguards a broad range of planned open spaces, including public parks, cemeteries, the grounds of private houses, and town squares. Like Listed Buildings, Parks and Gardens are assigned one of three grades to indicate their significance.

Historic England

08 July 2025

Rivers Trusts in England, Wales, Soctland and All Ireland. A group of environmental charities dedicated to protecting and improving river environments for the benefit of people and wildlife. This layers shows the coverage of Rivers Trusts in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Please note, some Rivers Trusts' working areas overlap and may be subject to change. Our member Trusts are independent community-led charitable organisations, recognised as important deliverers of education, water management advice and practical conservation work, from source to sea – improving land, rivers and wetlands at a catchment or river basin scale. Please contact info@theriverstrust.org with any enquiries.

The Rivers Trust

12th May 2025

WFD River Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polyline Shapefile dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The river polylines were defined by using the Environment Agency - General Quality Assessment (GQA) River Stretches dataset which was copied directly from the CEH 1:50K River Network with some additional stretches added in by the Environment Agency. The resultant WFD river water body dataset is a sub-set of the CEH network, including only stretches that meet any of the criteria for the WFD. This dataset was previously known as WFD River Waterbodies Water bodies are attributed with a unique identifier ‘EA_WB_ID' (equivalent to WB_ID in Cycle 2) so this dataset can be linked directly to other WFD data sources such as river water body catchment, physical characteristics, risk, classification and proposed objectives as well as Cycle 2 datasets. NB Not all catchments have a designated WFD river water body within them. This dataset covers the layer for Cycle 1 of the Water Framework Directive and does not include artificial water bodies; these are available as WFD ARTIFICIAL WATER BODIES: CANALS AND SURFACE WATER TRANSFER CHANNELS CYCLE 1. However, the equivalent layer for Cycle 2 is covered under WFD River, Canal and Surface Water Transfer Water bodies Cycle 2 (ie both artificial and natural water bodies) Please note that the Environment Agency no longer provide data for water bodies in Wales - this should now available from Natural Resources Wales. Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency 2017. All rights reserved. Based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013.

Environment Agency

3rd April 2012

The WFD River Waterbody Catchments Cycle 2 are a polygon dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive. Catchments are defined as an area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a series of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes to a particular point in the water course such as a river confluence. Since rivers are attributed with a unique identifier 'WB_ID' this dataset can be linked directly to the WFD river waterbody to which it relates. This data also contains areas of land which drain directly to the coastal or estuarine waters, rather than through a river water body. These have A 'WB_ID' as a number, a WB_Cat of 'Coastal Catchment' and all are named 'Not part of a river WB catchment'. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. All rights reserved.

Environment Agency

30th October 2014

SBIs are non-statutory areas of substantive nature conservation importance within the county of Greater Manchester. The SBI system is designed to establish and highlight to planners, landowners and site managers where areas of high biodiversity interest occur so that appropriate decisions on planning applications, land use and land management can be made. Full SBI citations including site descriptions, statistics and grading information can be obtained from GMLRC if required. Greater Manchester Ecology Unit (GMEU) operates the SBI register for, and on behalf of, the ten Local Authorities that comprise Greater Manchester. This dataset contains all current SBI boundaries (based upon the 2021 review), including the name of each site and its defining features. SBIs are Greater Manchester's equivalent to Local Wildlife Sites (LWS).

Greater Manchester Ecology Unit

November 2024

A Special Area of Conservation (SAC) is the land designated under Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora. Data supplied has the status of "Candidate". The data does not include "proposed" Sites. Boundaries are mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap. © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.

Natural England

1st March 2016

A Special Protection Area (SPA) is the land classified under Directive 79/409 on the Conservation of Wild Birds. Data supplied has the status "Classified". The data does not include "proposed" sites. Boundaries are mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap. © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025

Natural England

1st March 2016

Statutory Main Rivers Map is a spatial (polyline) dataset that defines statutory watercourses in England designated as Main Rivers by the Environment Agency. Watercourses designated as ‘main river’ are generally the larger arterial watercourses. The Environment Agency has permissive powers, but not a duty, to carry out maintenance, improvement or construction work on designated main rivers. All other open water courses in England are determined by statute as an ‘ordinary watercourse’. On these watercourses the Lead Local flood Authority or, if within an Internal Drainage District, the Internal Drainage Board have similar permissive powers to maintain and improve. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (2023)

Environment Agency

11th January 2023

GMCA in partnership with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has developed and tested a methodology for identifying Heat Network Zones as part of the Heat Network Zoning Pilot Programme where heat networks will provide the lowest cost low-carbon heating option. This work has identified ten Strategic Heat Zones, which are key to enabling the development of heat networks across Greater Manchester.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

2025

The full boundaries of the local authority wards in Greater Manchester - Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The data is sourced from ONS' administrative and electoral boundary datasets. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025

Office for National Statistics

December 2022

The full boundaries of the local authority wards in Greater Manchester - Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. The data is sourced from ONS' administrative and electoral boundary datasets. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025

Office for National Statistics

December 2024

The Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) includes several layers of information. This dataset covers Water Storage Areas. It shows those areas that act as a balancing reservoir, storage basin or balancing pond. Their purpose is to attenuate an incoming flood peak to a flow level that can be accepted by the downstream channel. It may also delay the timing of a flood peak so that its volume is discharged over a longer time interval. We have assumed that water storage areas act perfectly and give the same level of protection as when our assessment of the area was carried out. Water storage areas do not completely remove the chance of flooding and can be overtopped or fail in extreme weather conditions. This dataset is designed to raise awareness of the likelihood of flooding and to encourage people living and working in areas prone to flooding to find out more and take appropriate action. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH) © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064.

Environment Agency

6th February 2025