Councillors Teresa Cullen & Greg Marshall have arranged a series of dates to discuss the Beeston Town Council proposal as mentioned in last weekend’s news post – see image below for details of venues, dates and times this week and next week.
AGM Feedback Form
As we have asked previously following an AGM, we would like your feedback. Here is a short Feedback Form to complete. Whether or not you attended the meeting, we would like to hear from you, but in particular if you were unable to attend, we would like to understand why you didn’t or couldn’t.
The form can be completed anonymously and providing an email address is entirely optional. All feedback received is invaluable to the Steering Group. Thank you in advance for providing it.
The draft AGM minutes will be made available to view as soon as we can.
Beeston Town Council Proposal
A proposition to create a Beeston Town Council is being put forward by Broxtowe Councillors – see this article.
It would cover the whole of the NG9 area and include Attenborough, Bramcote, Chilwell and Toton alongside Beeston.
The Steering Group has asked for further details and a meeting to understand the proposal more fully, including implications for the Forum. We would be interested to hear the views of our members via the usual routes at the bottom of this post. Any of your comments we do publish on the website will of course be anonymised first.
Broxtowe Parks and Play Strategy Consultation
…… and finally this week, Broxtowe are consulting on their Parks and Play Strategy – see here. It is open until 30th September. The questions don’t easily lend themselves to a Forum response, so please do respond to it on an individual basis.
As always please do feel free to ask any questions you may have on this week’s latest bulletin or anything else via the Contact Us page or by email to assist.cttcnf@gmail.com, and we’ll do our best to answer them via the Questions and Answers page.
Date – 9th July 2026
Venue:- Toton Methodist Church, Stapleford Lane, Toton NG9 6GA
Doors open at 6.45pm with the meeting due to commence at 7pm
Registration and Voting closes at 6pm this Wednesday 8th July
You can still vote for items as listed on the AGM agenda even if you are not able to attend the meeting – please use the AGM Voting Form
N.B. Only full members of the Forum (aged 16 years or over and who are resident or work in the Forum Area) are entitled to vote.
If you are attending the meeting, please register your attendance in advance via the Registration Form
Registration on the night will be available, but we would like to keep this to a minimum.
For further information please see our AGM page
The deadline to volunteer as a member of the Steering Group ahead of the AGM has now passed, but if you have missed the deadline, and are still interested, or just willing to help with the work and running of the Forum generally, then please email assist.cttcnf@gmail.com to discuss further.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Thursday.
Voting for items as listed on the AGM agenda is now open, even if you are not attending the meeting – please use the AGM Voting Form. Voting closes at 6pm 8th July 2026
N.B. Only full members of the Forum (aged 16 years or over and who are resident or work in the Forum Area) are entitled to vote.
If you are attending the meeting then please register your attendance in advance via the Registration Form by 6pm 8th July 2026. Registration on the night will be available, but we would like to keep this to a minimum.
The deadline to volunteer as a member of the Steering Group has now passed, but if you have missed the deadline, and are still interested or wish to discuss further, then please email assist.cttcnf@gmail.com
For further information please see our AGM page and last weekend’s post.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on 9th July.
The draft agenda for the Forum AGM and Open meeting with Chetwynd CIC is now available here and on the website AGM page. It is subject to change, so please keep checking back to the website for updates. We will of course also update you via these posts.
As a further reminder (see also our earlier post), the meeting will be held at 7pm on Thursday 9th July 2026 at Toton Methodist Church, Stapleford Lane, Toton NG9 6GA – please add the date to your diaries.
We will aim to complete the formal part of the meeting (page 1 of the agenda) in under an hour, leaving the rest of the time for the open meeting (page 2 of the agenda).
To speed up registration at the meeting, we would like you to pre-register beforehand by 6pm 8th July 2026. Registration will still be possible at the meeting, but we would like to keep this to the minimum please. Please complete a separate Registration Form for each person attending.
The Forum needs new members for the Steering Group, if you would like to volunteer and join the Steering Group, please complete this Nomination Form.The deadline to receive nominations for membership of the Steering Group is 6pm 2nd July 2026.
A separate AGM Voting Form will be made available once nominations for the Steering Group have closed.
Registering and voting in advance speeds up the process on the night and allows us to check eligibility in advance. N.B. Non-members of the Forum may attend the AGM and open meeting discussion, but are not entitled to vote.
If you are interested in contributing to the work of the Forum and/or the CIC, or just to get updates on our work, please come along to talk to us.
Toton ‘West’ Planning Application 25/00371/OUT
Further to last week’s post the agenda for the Planning Committee meeting next Wednesday 1st July has been published – see here.
It is only in fact the outline application (25/00371/OUT) that will be considered at this stage, and not the hybrid one (25/00928/FUL). If you made representations to Broxtowe during the two consultations on this application, then you should have received a letter inviting you to speak at the meeting. If you do wish to speak, then you only have until noon this coming Monday 29th June to register to do so. There is no guarantee and it would appear to be a lottery as to who will be chosen to speak! Nevertheless, members of the Steering Group have registered, but can only speak as individuals and not on behalf of the Forum, which is madness! We will have to see what transpires after the deadline.
The Officer’s Report to the Planning Committee on this application is available via the above link or you can read it here. It doesn’t make good reading! Whether we can influence the outcome remains to be seen!!
We would urge you to contact your Ward Councillors (Chilwell West and Toton & Chilwell Meadows) urgently to make your views known – find them on this list.
As always please do feel free to ask any questions you may have on this week’s latest bulletin or anything else via the Contact Us page or by email to assist.cttcnf@gmail.com, and we’ll do our best to answer them via the Questions and Answers page.
If you’re interested in rethinking how our city streets are designed and how this could apply to the developments in our Area, this podcast from the BBC makes for an interesting 30 minute listen.
Can we design our streets to put people first? Do we need traffic lights on roads to allow people to cross?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002xp70?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
We have received notification that the two applications relating to development on the land West of Stapleford Lane are “programmed to be considered by the Council’s Planning Committee on 1st July 2026.”
These are the Applications which are subject to Appeal by the Applicant (see our previous post). Individuals are invited to ask to speak and, if there are multiple people wishing to speak, the council will choose an individual. The Forum is not invited to speak.
The fact that it is “programmed to be considered” does not mean that it will be, the agenda will be published “usually 5 working days prior to the meeting” and “interested parties are asked to check the website regularly”.
As per our previous post on 6th June, the Beeston Civic Society are holding a “Wildlife Walk” in collaboration with the Forum this Sunday 21st June meeting at 2pm at the Toton Tram Stop Entrance. It will last about 2 hours and cover a short distance of around 2 miles.
It is hosted by Margaret Crittenden, the Forum’s Environment Lead, and Chryse Tinsley who is a Landscape Architect and Trustee of the Civic Society, as well as being involved with the Forum.
N.B. The flyer above should say Chilwell, not Trowell! Although unable to access the barracks site, it is likely the walk will include some of the perimeter visible along the way.
Please do join Margaret & Chryse if you are able, and everyone will be most welcome.
Also don’t forget the 2026 Forum AGM & Chetwynd Energy Club presentation at the Toton Methodist Church on Thursday 9th July at 7pm
The Chetwynd Toton & Chilwell Neighbourhood Forum and Chetwynd Community Interest Company are holding a joint Open Meeting and AGM at the Toton Methodist Church on Thursday 9th July at 7pm to provide updates on the work and future direction of the Forum.
The meeting will also include the results of the Chetwynd Energy Club solar local energy network project www.chetwyndenergyclub. org.uk.
If you are interested in contributing to the work of the Forum or CIC, or just to get updates on our work, please come along to talk to us.
You can sign up for regular updates by email via the Contact us page. You can also visit our Facebook page.
Further details about the meeting will be available nearer the time.
Wildlife Walk
The Beeston Civic Society are holding a “Wildlife Walk” in collaboration withe the Forum on Sunday 21st June meeting at 2pm at the Toton Tram Stop Entrance. It will last about 2 hours and cover a short distance of around 2 miles.
It is hosted by Margaret Crittenden, the Forum’s Environment Lead, and Chryse Tinsley who is a Landscape Architect and Trustee of the Civic Society, as well as being involved with the Forum.
N.B. The flyer above should say Chilwell, not Trowell! Although unable to access the barracks site, it is likely the walk will include some of the perimeter visible along the way.
Please do join Margaret & Chryse if you are able, and everyone will be most welcome.
