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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

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Design Codes follow on: Heritage Asset Study

Chetwynd Barracks still contains a rich collection of Heritage buildings. The WWI Memorial for those civilians who lost their lives in the explosion in July 1918 (134 died, 250 injured) when the original site was National Shell Filling Factory No6 … Continue reading

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Design Codes follow on: Health Centre Study

This was an important asset that we needed to ensure would be included in the emerging development. As such we worked once more with KEFA on this subject informing them of our views and helping with our local knowledge of … Continue reading

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Community Energy Project & Community Buildings Survey

Just a couple of things this week. The Forum is working with Students at Nottingham University to see if there is an opportunity for a “Community Energy” project in the area. They have created a brief questionnaire to move the … Continue reading

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Design Codes follow on: Community Buildings Study

We took this on as we need to identify what sort of community assets we would like to see, the number, and where we thought they would be best situated. So once more we sat down with the team from … Continue reading

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Fed up seeing developments of more tiny expensive boxy houses?

Chetwynd & Toton Housing Types Study. Do you really want to see developments of more tiny expensive boxy houses? Continue reading

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Design Codes follow on: Housing Numbers Study

Following on in our series of support documents to our Design Codes we are please to share the Housing Numbers Study Document. As you will be aware Broxtowe Borough Council has set housing targets in its Local Plan (4,500 homes … Continue reading

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Design Codes Discussion

Some of the Steering Group are hoping to meet with EMDevCo and/or their consultants during the week starting 10th April 2023 for an initial meeting to discuss “Design Codes”. If you have any comments on the Neighbourhood Forum Design Codes, … Continue reading

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Neighbourhood Plan

On Monday this week we received a further Procedural Letter from the Examiner setting out information in relation to the next steps for the Independent Examination of the Neighbourhood Plan. She has suggested that there should be a “proportionate opportunity … Continue reading

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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

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