Erewash Borough Saved Policies
Local Planning Policies are produced by local authorities at District and Borough level to address conservation and development issues and set out policies on land use planning matters. Local Planning Policies identify land for development uses, such as industry and housing, and land that should be protected such as green belt and areas of environmental quality.
Our first Local Planning Policies were set out within a Local Plan which was adopted in 1994. This was replaced by a new Erewash Borough Local Plan at a meeting of our Full Council on 28th July 2005. Since this date, all planning decisions have been in accordance with this Plan, unless material considerations state otherwise.
In 2004, Central Government introduced a new planning system under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. This new legislation provided for the automatic saving of policies in adopted local, structure and unitary development plans for a period of three years from the commencement date of the Act, the 28 September 2004, or the date of adoption of a Local Plan, whichever was later. As our Erewash Borough Local Plan was adopted on 28 July 2005, our policies were saved until 27 July 2008.
Under the new legislation we have had to formally request an extension of the saved status of policies that we wish to keep, from the Secretary of State. We did this in March 2008. The Secretary of State on 25th July 2008 sent us a letter telling us of her decision about whether she agreed to allow us to continue to save some of our policies.
To view the letter, please click on the link below.
Saved Policy Letter From GOEM (73 KB)
This letter lists those policies that have been saved and will continue to be used to determine planning applications. Therefore all policies set out within the letter and the schedule to the letter, are saved.
Policies not set out in the letter are not saved and will not now be used to determine planning applications.
Our fully interactive electronic version of our Saved Policies is available to view as is our Saved Policies document.
Supplementary Planning Documents
We have ten adopted Supplementary Planning Documents, which we have produced since 2005 to clarify what we mean by some of our planning policies. All of our Supplementary Planning Documents remain in place, as significant material considerations when making planning decisions, as the policies to which they relate have been saved by the Secretary of State.
Further Information
Further information on the Local Plan can be obtained by contacting the Policy & Development Team at the Long Eaton Offices of the Council. Tel: 0115 907 2202, 2212, 2218 or 2217 or email:ldf@erewash.gov.uk
The next stage in the development planning process is explained on the Borough Council’s Local Development Framework page.
Previous Associated Documents
Statement of Decisions and Schedule of Proposed Modifications (417 KB)
Urban Capacity Study April 2004 (74 KB)
Local Plan Documents
Full Inspectors Report (1.3 MB)
Sustainability Appraisal - October 2002 (179 KB)