What is Greater Manchester Combined Authority?
Greater Manchester Combined Authority has 11 members: the ten local council leaders and the [[Mayor of Greater Manchester]] as the eleventh member. It is the [[Local government in England|local government]] for Greater Manchester. The first since the [[Greater Manchester County Council]] was closed in 1986. It was set up in 2011.<ref>{{Cite news|date=31 March 2010|title=John Denham - Greater Manchester to be country's first ever Combined Authority|work=www.communities.gov.uk|url=http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1527485|access-date=31 March 2023}}</ref> It has powers over [[public transport]], skills, housing, regeneration, [[waste management]], [[Carbon neutrality|carbon neutralit]]<nowiki/>y and [[planning permission]]<nowiki/>s. It runs [[Transport for Greater Manchester]]. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Organisations based in Greater Manchester]] [[Category:Local government in England]]