Salford City Council
Salford City Council is the local authority for the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester. As a metropolitan borough council, it provides the majority of local government services in the city.
The council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority since 2011, which has been led by the directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. The combined authority provides strategic leadership and co-ordination for certain functions across Greater Manchester, notably transport and town planning, but Salford City Council continues to be responsible for most local government functions.
From recognition by the property industry as City of the Year and planting more than 2000 trees, to improving school attendance and building more than 2500 new homes, the council is focused on improving the city for all those who live and work in it.
Salford City Council’s vision is to create a fairer, greener, healthier and more inclusive city for all. To achieve this, the council set out seven interconnected priorities as the focus for its work from 2024 to 2028. These are:
- good growth;
- a good home for all;
- tackling poverty and inequality;
- creating places where people want to live;
- a child-friendly city;
- responding to climate change; and
- healthy lives and quality of care for all.
