Core Strategy Review Latest News
26 April 2024
An updated Hearings programme INS07a, showing new dates and including all participants is now available to view in the Examination Library.
26 March 2024
Revised Hearing Dates
The Core Strategy Review public hearings will now take place in June 2024, commencing on Tuesday 4th June with Matter 1 at 9.30am. For further details please see:
INS07 Inspectors Revised Draft Hearing Programme
Further details are available on the Live Hearings Information page.
Additional Targeted Consultation January - February 2024
The Council has now completed an additional round of consultation for those people who had not been informed about the publication version of the plan. The additional submitted representations are now available to view as follows:
EBC09 - Statement of Additional Targeted Consultation – A summary
Index of Individual Representations
Next Steps for Respondents of the Targeted Consultation 15 Jan- 26 Feb 2024
People who made representations as part of the additional round of consultation are now invited to submit comments in response to the Inspectors Matters, Issues and Questions contained in document INS03. Please also refer to INS08 Inspector’s Revised Guidance Notes for further details.
New documents released by the Council
The Council have recently released 2 new documents.
EBC10 Viability Assessment-South West of Kirk Hallam Update-March 2024
EBC11 Erewash Housing Trajectory (2022 to 2039) – 2024
Next Steps for Existing Respondents
Given the passage of time and the release of new documents, those Respondents who have already submitted responses to the Matters, Issues and Questions are invited to update their statements if they wish. Any updated statements should be submitted to the Programme Officer by 12:00 midday on Wednesday 8 May 2024. Please also refer to INS08 Inspector’s Revised Guidance Notes
Should you require any further information on any of the above items, please contact the Programme Officer, Miny Schofield This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 07799 724690.
11 January 2024
Council's Response to the Inspector’s letter INS06
EBC08 is now available to view in the Examination Library.
09 January 2024
Hearings Postponed Until Further Notice
Inspectors Response to the Council’s letter EBC07 – regarding Regulation 18 and Regulation 19 Consultations
The Inspector, Ms. Ford, has responded to the Council. In her letter INS06, a decision has been taken to postpone the forthcoming hearings until further consultation work is carried out by the Council. Please also refer to documents INS05 and EBC07.
22 December 2023
Letter to the Council from the Inspector re Regulation 18 and 19 Consultations
A letter (INS05) with regards to collecting information for their Regulation 19 consultation was sent to the Council on 14 December 2023 from the Inspector. The Council's response letter (EBC07) to the Inspector is now available to view in the Examination Library. We now await the Inspector's decision highlighting the way forward.
22 December 2023
INS04c – Updated Draft hearings Programme
INS04c is now available to view in the Examination Library
21 December 2023
Hearing Statements
All hearing statements for the public examination have now been received and may be viewed in the Examination Library under Hearing Statements
20 December 2023
Hearing Statements deadline for Matters 8 and 9
All hearing statements received so far may be viewed in the Examination Library on the Hearing Statements page using the link above.
The deadline for receiving Matters 8 and 9 was 15th December 2023 and they are now available to view in the Examination Library. Matters 2,4, 6, 7, and 10 are due in on 21st December 2023.
18 December 2023
On the 30th November just before an Extraordinary Council Meeting , where Councillors were looking to withdraw the current submitted Draft Core Strategy Review, the Council was issued with a letter (OTH01) from the Lee Rowley, the Minister for Housing, serving a Section 27 notice to stop this action going forward. The Council were asked to respond to Mr. Rowley by 14th December 2023 and the response from Councillor James Dawson may be viewed in document OTH02.
Please note, until any further instructions have been received from either parties, the public examination is still in progress and live hearings will still take place, commencing on Tuesday 16th January 2024 with Matter 1.
12 December 2023
Live Hearings Information
All information relating to the forthcoming Hearing sessions may be found in the Examination library here Live Hearings Information
As well as directions to the venue, parking information, and the latest draft programme you may also access hearing statements and agendas here. This page will be updated as further items become available.
07 December 2023
Hearing Statements deadline for Matters 1, 3 and 5
All hearing statements received so far may be viewed in the Examination Library on the Hearing Statements page.
The deadline for receiving Matters 8 and 9 is 15th December 2023, and Matters 2,4, 6, 7, and 10 the 21st December 2023.
INS04b Draft Hearing Programme Updated for Matter 7 Housing Land Supply
Please note, the hearing session for Matter 7 Housing Land Supply has been moved from Thursday 1st February 2024 to 9.30am on Wednesday 7th February 2024.
The amended Hearing programme may be viewed here:
04 December 2023
The Examination in public of the Draft Core Strategy Review will now continue as planned with a few alterations to Hearing statement submission dates and Hearing sitting days.
Draft Hearings Programme
INS04a the amended draft hearings programme including participants is now available to view in the Examination Library. Hearings under the new timetable will commence with Matter 1 at 9.30am on Tuesday 16 January 2024.
The Inspector has issued revised, phased submission deadlines for existing Respondents to submit Hearing statements as follows:
Matters 1, 3 and 5 – to be received by 5pm on 7th December 2023
Matters 8 and 9 - to be received by 5pm on 15th December 2023
Maters 2, 4, 6, 7 and 10 - to be received by 5pm on 21st December 2023
All hearings statements must be received electronically by the programme officer at the allotted deadline, and they will be added to the Examination Library shortly afterwards.
30 November 2023
The Extraordinary meeting was adjourned this evening shortly after it started. Earlier in the day a letter was received by Councillor James Dawson (Leader of the Council) from Lee Rowley the appointed Minster of State (Minister for Housing) in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to inform the Council that they would not be able to withdraw the plan.
24 November 2023
In light of the recent news with regards to the Extraordinary Council Meeting being held on November 30th 2023, the Planning Inspector has moved the Hearing Statements submission deadline to 5pm on Thursday 7th December 2023 with a view to holding all of the public examination hearings in January 2024. Further information will be provided here following the outcome of the meeting.
23 November 2023
Extraordinary Council Meeting
An extraordinary council meeting will take place on 30 November to consider the withdrawal of the Core Strategy Review. The agenda and report can be found here.
Details of Extraordinary Council Meeting
05 October 2023
Inspector's Matters Issues and Questions
We have now reached the next stage of the Examination and the Inspector has released to the Council, Examination Guidance Notes, a Draft Hearings Programme and the Inspector's Matters, Issues and Questions.
The Inspector is inviting those individuals who submitted comments at the Regulation 19 consultation who wish to participate in the Hearings to contact the Programme Officer no later than 12:00 midday on Friday 3rd November 2023.
The same respondents are also invited to submit written hearing statments in response to the Inspector's Matters, Issues and Questions (INS04). The Hearing Statements are to be received by 12:00 midday on Thursday 30th November 2023. The Programme officer is happy to receive all correspondence by email with statements attached. However, paper copies by post will also be acceptable.
For more details, please refer to documents:
The following documents have been recently released and are referred to in the Inspectors questions. They may also be found in the Examination Library along with all other Examination documents:
EBC05 Green Belt Technical Paper 280.44 KBShould you require any assistance with this consultation please contact the programme Officer Miny Schofield by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 07799 724690
5 July 2023
Following the Inspector’s Initial questions and the Council’s response to them the Council is currently undertaking additional work and a further update will be provided in due course. No other updates including timings for the Inspectors Matters, Issues and Questions or Hearing dates are available at this moment in time.
There has been a change in Programme Officer, this change occurred after Erewash responded to the Initial Questions. Miny Schofield is the Programme Officer going forward, please note, a change in contact details. The email address remains the same and the phone number is now 07799 724690.
8th March 2023
It has been brought to our attention the link to Appendix E - Statement of Consultation was broken, this is now fixed and the document is now available to download below.
28th February 2023
The Council has written a response to the Planning Inspectorate regarding the Initial Questions, the response sent through on Thursday 23rd February is available to view on the website.
Read the EBC01 Initial Questions Response.
31st January 2023
The Council has received initial questions from the Planning Inspectorate. A response to the initial questions is due by Thursday 23rd February, although this date may be postponed. The letter the Council received from the Planning Inspectorate containing the initial questions can be viewed from the link below. The Planning Inspectorate is not inviting any comments from other interested parties at this time.
Read the INS01 Initial Questions Letter.
10th January 2023
In accordance with section 20(4) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, Kelly Ford MSc, MRTPI has been appointed to hold an independent examination of the Erewash Core Strategy Review. The purpose of the independent examination is set out in S20(5).