Integrated pipeline and growth locations

An integrated pipeline for growth 

We’ve used our devolved powers to create a single integrated pipeline for growth (external website). Working with Government and the private sector, the Integrated Pipeline will be an enabling tool for delivering strategic projects in employment, housing, town centres, and key infrastructure over the next 10 years. With the right national support, the Integrated Pipeline will support building 75,000 new homes across Greater Manchester in the next five years. 

Until now, we’ve had separate pipelines for delivering transport, housing, innovation, and low-carbon energy infrastructure. Now we can align activity and sequence development in a way that extracts maximum value per pound.  

What will the integrated pipeline do?

Turbocharge growth by unlocking land and attracting £10 billion in investment over the next decade, paving the way for the private sector to create new homes, jobs and industrial and commercial spaces.

Join the dots between new homes and employment sites, with green spaces, low-carbon heating systems, and great transport links through the Bee Network, particularly as it expands to include local rail routes. 

Growth locations

Investment will be targeted at six Growth Locations – nationally significant sites with land earmarked and shovel-ready. Each Growth Location has a distinct focus, building on our sector strengths:  

• The Western Gateway connects New Carrington to the city centres, including Old Trafford and Port Salford. It is where the HYNET low carbon hydrogen project links to Greater Manchester, with plans to capitalise on its connectivity to support Greater Manchester’s low carbon economy.
• The North East Growth Corridor includes Atom Valley, where a Mayoral Development Zone is driving the development of an advanced materials and manufacturing cluster, connected to research and innovation in the city region's world-class universities.
• Plans for the Airport and Southern Growth Corridor capitalise on the international connectivity of Manchester Airport, where MIX Manchester is creating opportunities to grow Life Sciences and Tech sectors, and driving the transformation of town centres like Stockport and Wythenshawe.
• The Central Growth Cluster will build on the continuing high performance of the city centre growth engine – powered by the science and tech cluster on the Oxford Road Corridor, creative industries and Greater Manchester’s large business, financial and professional services community. This area will foster growing innovation districts at Sister and Salford Crescent, and major regeneration projects like Victoria North and Holt Town.    
• The Eastern Growth Cluster, leveraging the creation of the Ashton Mayoral Development Zone to drive advanced materials and manufacturing development at Ashton Moss, alongside regeneration linking key towns on the transport corridor connected to Manchester City Centre. 
• NorthFold – Transforming the town centres of Bolton and Wigan, leveraging thousands of new homes to drive improved transport connectivity across the boroughs and the wider network, and a new Health Innovation Campus linked to the Royal Bolton Hospital.