Local Development Framework

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 28 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 25 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.

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.

Local Plan Proposals Map

Our fully interactive electronic version of our Saved Policies Map is still available to view as is our Saved Policies document Written Statement which is available to download. However, we are currently amending these documents to take account of the Secretary of State’s decision on our saved policies and will put these on our website as soon as possible. In the interim, when using these documents, please ensure you refer to the Secretary of State’s letter at all time

Local Plan Written Statement

The Written Statement of the Saved Policies Document can be accessed below

Saved Policies Document

Related Documents

Saved Policy Letter from GOEM

Inspector's Report (Local Plan)