Category Archives: Chetwynd Barracks
Use to cover the Barracks development area
Design Code & Neighbourhood Plan Updates
Meeting with Local Residents Earlier this week members of the Steering Group met with some of our local residents to discuss their concerns as to how some of the suggestions put forward in the Forum Design Codes would affect properties … Continue reading →
East Midlands Development Company – Latest Prospectus
The East Midlands Development Company have a vision for the three major development sites across the East Midlands. The see the Toton & Chetwynd development as “The Home of Next Generation Living and Working”. Go to their home page to … Continue reading →
Design Codes follow on: Interactive Masterplan
As Promised, we wanted to send out the support documents that helped us inform the Design Codes revealed on March 26th 2023. So here is our Interactive Master Plan and the same Masterplan with the background words to help you … Continue reading →
Toton & Chetwynd Strategic Masterplan SPD – Council Meeting Update
This is just a quick update following on from the Newsflash published earlier this week – see here The Forum Steering Group lobbied our local councillors (and hopefully some of you did too), and we are pleased to report that … Continue reading →
Broxtowe: Toton & Chetwynd Strategic Masterplan SPD: Request For Adoption by the Council
The Council Meeting of the 12th October includes (at item 8 on the agenda) a request to adopt the updated Strategic Masterplan for Toton and Chetwynd Barracks. The first indication of this activity was an informal notification received by the … Continue reading →
Chilwell Munitions Factory Explosion – Apology
Apologies as it appears that our automated mailer removed the YouTube link to the History Chap video in the Latest News edition that went out over the weekend. However it can be viewed via our website here. N.B. All previous … Continue reading →
Chilwell Munitions Factory Explosion
Many (most) of you will be aware of the National Shell Filling Factory explosion which occurred on 1st July 1918 on the site of the now Chetwynd Barracks. 134 people died (including some of the Canary Girls) and many more … Continue reading →
Heritage Open Days
Beeston and District Civic Society are hosting some Heritage Open Days see here for further details. At the event next Wednesday 14th September the Forum will have a stand detailing the heritage assets on Chetwynd Barracks, including some of our … Continue reading →
Nottinghamshire County Council Bid for Toton’s £40m Link Road
Update: This Bid Failed. See This link for more information. (Note the information in the article is not completely accurate, the 4,500 homes figure is the capacity of Chetwynd Barracks + The Strategic Land for Growth. Chetwynd Barracks has a … Continue reading →
Forum Digest 12th February 2022
A number of updates and items of interest in this week’s newsletter:- Forum Re-Designation Consultation The consultation to re-designate the Forum closed on 28th January. We understand that Broxtowe received a number of responses from individuals and organisations, the vast … Continue reading →