Wikipedia
Northenden is a suburban area and electoral ward of the city of Manchester in North West England. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 14,771. It lies on the south side of both the River Mersey and the M60 motorway, west of Stockport and south of Manchester city centre. Northenden is one of several areas in the Wythenshawe district of South Manchester. It is bounded by the districts of Didsbury to the north, Gatley to the east, and the rest of Wythenshawe to the south and west.
Anciently a part of Cheshire, Northenden was formerly a rural township and parish within the hundred of Bucklow. Despite a process of unplanned urbanisation and population growth in its neighbours during the 19th century, Northenden remained a comparatively rural and unpopulated area which spanned the hamlets of Lawton Moor, Northern Moor, Rose Hill and a part of what is now Wythenshawe. By 1866 Northenden had coalesced and became a civil parish. The industrialisation of neighbouring Manchester resulted in overpopulation, and so in the early 20th century Manchester City Council used the Local Government Act 1929 to extend its boundaries to encompass Northenden in 1931.
Throughout the mid-20th century Northenden was redeveloped as an overspill estate in southern Manchester. Resident/activists organising to oppose a high rise building and library closure in 2011/12 decided to apply to be designated a Neighbourhood Forum under the 2011 Localism Act to give resident s a greater say in the future development of Northenden. It was approved by M.C.C. planning authority in February 2014 after a lengthy process.It does not cover the political ward. Its area is that of the village, minus the Northern Moor part which was originally requested but received political opposition as did the request for the industrial estate, two thirds of which is in Northenden ward. At the time of this editing (April 2016) Northenden Neighbourhood Forum remains the only Neighbourhood Forum in Greater Manchester. The only other was at Fenwick in Preston which was a 'front runner'; the name given to trialists initiated by Government.