A advice has been voting narrowly to withdraw from a controversial housing system for more than 10,000 new homes after months with a hard debate about building on Greenbelt land.

The decision from Oldham Council, who is work -based but without overall control, will see officers write to the government to request that the district be withdrawn from the places for all (PFE) program.

PFE Housing Blueprint established by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) aims to see 170,000 houses built in nine of the region’s neighborhoods, including 11,500 in Oldham.

The liberal Democrat group leader in Council Howard Sykes, who voted for the withdrawal, said that the “developed” plan did not put people’s needs first.

In response to the vote, mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burham said it was not in Oldham’s interest “to rip everything” while the government is presenting funding for new housing.

He told me BBC Radio Manchester He would reach out to the opposition council leaders to find a compromise to see more Brownfield -Mark assigned under the plan and fewer Greenbelt websites.

A group of liberal democratic, conservative and independent advisors have demanded that the Council withdraw from the common system since the local election in May 2024, when Labor lost the total control over the Council.

PFE was signed before the election of the Oldham Council and eight other advice in the city region.

Stockport Council, the only other GMCA authority, already withdrew from PFE 2022 before it was signed.

After the narrow vote on Wednesday evening, the Council will now write to the Secretary of State for Housing, Angela Rayner, and requests the authority to be removed from the system.

The plans are intended to use a “Brownfield -first” strategy to fight the housing crisis.

In Oldham, this would see to build on land in Beal Valley, Bottom Field Farm, Broadbent Moss, south of Coal Pit Lane and south of Rosary Road.

But the schedule has long led to the resistance over its inclusion of GreenBelt -Mark.

Sykes told the Council members: “Expensive luxury housing on Greenbelt is not the answer to the housing crisis.

“This will be a developer and profit -led plan, not a people and needs -based plan.

“Does Labor really suggest that the best Oldham can do is support a plan designed in Manchester ten years ago, without any idea about the local challenges we face?

“I think we can do better.”

The Labor Council Leaders claimed it would be a mistake to withdraw from PFE, including Council leader Arooj Shah

She said: “It shocks me how brave some people are about misleading our residents.

“It would be a mistake for Oldham, for Greenbelt and for our residents who desperately need housing. It would lead to further development of Greenbelt.

“Lib Dems knows that because it is the same that plays out in Stockport there (Lib Dem leadership) now dances to developers.”

The vote won with 31 votes to 29 to high applause from advisers and the public.