Nottingham Forest – New Ground in Toton?

At the end of the Toton & Chilwell Meadows Community Action Team meeting on the 14th March, it was mentioned that Nottingham County Council are to discuss this week a proposal to relocate Nottingham Forest to Toton. Nottingham Forest are in dispute over the increased rent demands for the City Ground.

The Ashfield Independent Councillor who is proposing the motion is reported to have said “Toton already has the infrastructure including a tram stop and railway station”. (Toton doesn’t have a railway station and the proposal in the Government’s Integrated Rail Plan required 50% funding from private investors).

Quite how this proposal would help to meet the 3,000 homes, 18,000 sq m of office space and high skilled jobs included in the Broxtowe Part 2 Local Plan is unclear.

Read more in articles from Nottinghamshire Live here and here.

And the BBC’s article here.

If you have an opinion on this proposal, tell your council representatives.

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Ask the East Midlands Mayoral Candidates a Question

For those of you who don’t receive notifications from Nottinghamshire Live, here is a link that you may be interested in:

People from across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire are being given the chance to grill those hoping to become the first ever East Midlands Mayor. Nottinghamshire Live and Derbyshire Live have teamed up with Notts TV and Nottingham Trent University to host a live hustings event set to feature all five of the confirmed mayoral candidates. 

Follow this link to the Nottinghamshire Live page to enter your question.

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Community Action Team Meeting 14th March

Councillor Cullen has just let us know that there will be another Toton & Chilwell Meadows CAT meeting this week on Thursday evening 14th March at 7.30pm at Coronation Hall, Toton (details below).
She apologises for the short notice, but please do attend if you are able and to raise any local issues you may have with your local ward councillors, as they will be interested in your views.

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Neighbourhood Forum Updates

Broxtowe Decision Statement

Further to our post on 7th February providing the outcome of the Cabinet meeting to approve that the Neighbourhood Plan can proceed to local referendum, Broxtowe have published their formal Decision Statement. In summary, Cabinet resolved at its meeting on Tuesday 6th February 2024, that:

  1. The Chetwynd: The Toton and Chilwell Neighbourhood Plan should be modified as proposed by the Independent Examiner.
  2. Once modified as proposed by the Independent Examiner, it is considered the Neighbourhood Plan will meet the Basic Conditions and other legislative requirements. 
  3. The Chetwynd: The Toton and Chilwell Neighbourhood Plan should proceed to a referendum, with the extent of the area eligible to vote to be based upon the Chetwynd: The Toton and Chilwell Neighbourhood Area as shown within appendix 1 to the report.

Our website Plan page has been updated accordingly.

As we have said previously, before the Referendum can proceed, the Neighbourhood Plan has had to be fully updated following the Examiner’s recommendations as stated in her report, and be in its final version along with any other supporting documents. Which leads us on to:-

Neighbourhood Plan Modifications Progress

The required modifications to the Plan are about 95% complete. It hasn’t been so much the modifications themselves that has taken the best part of a month to amend the document, but the re-formatting to accommodate them that has been a challenge! We are nearly there now with some final tidying up, page numbering & contents page to update.

However, we won’t be in a position to share it until the Broxtowe Planning Team have completed their accuracy checks to ensure compliance with the Examiner’s recommendations, and approved its publication. They will also need to make the final version accessible for assistive technologies. The team have produced updated maps & diagrams for us, as required by the Examiner, and also a new Policies Map (also required) to accompany the final Plan document.

Both the Forum & Broxtowe are still working towards being able to hold the Local Referendum on 2nd May (the same date as the Combined Authority Mayoral and Police & Crime Commissioner elections) to ensure a good turnout. To achieve this, everything will need to be in place by mid-March so that the official electoral notice period can commence.

Confirmation of the date will follow in due course, along with the official notice issued by Broxtowe.

Toton Battery Storage Planning Appeal

Following on from our previous post about this (located in Bramcote, not Toton as the name would suggest!), the Steering Group has submitted a response to the Planning Inspectorate on the Forum’s behalf. For information it can be read here.  

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, and we’ll do our best to answer them via the Questions and Answers page.

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Toton East – Submitted Comments

As promised when we found out about the consultation by Pegasus for the Application for houses at Toton East, we submitted comments on behalf of the Neighbourhood Forum. Our comments can be found following this link.

We are pleased that a large number of people read our post (either from social media or our emails) and followed the link through to the Pegasus comments page and some of you shared your comments with us.

Some of the comments we received from you were “we don’t need any more homes”. However, Central Government and Local Government have already decided that our Area has a capacity for about 3,000 homes in the “Strategic Location for Growth” and the land cannot be re-designated as Greenbelt (we asked). We are committed to making developments: Sustainable; Energy efficient; Environmentally positive; provide the necessary Infrastructure (not just roads but medical facilities, schools, Active Travel, etc.); and provides Employment in the Area. It is on these requirements that we have provided our response.

We’ll let you know as we hear more.

If you wish to comment to us regarding any of this, please use our “Contact-Us” form.

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Government Consultation on Permitted Development

The UK Government is consulting on changes to Permitted Developments (i.e. changes to existing buildings that don’t need Planning Permission).

Amongst other things this will allow larger air sourced heatpumps and EV charging points.

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Urgent – Consultation on Toton East Housing

Updated: Pegasus has now closed this consultation. Our submitted comments can be found following this link. We would still be interested in your views contact us if you have any comments to make.


On Monday 12th February 2024 we received the attached from Pegasus Group who are preparing a Planning Application for housing on the land to the east of Toton Lane.

The Steering Group will be preparing a response on behalf of the Neighbourhood Forum, calling on the Neighbourhood Plan Policies and other related documents. However, this will only be one submission. It is therefore important that as many people as possible make their opinions known. We can’t instruct you as to what to say (consultations tend to ignore submissions with identical wording) but the topics we would suggest you consider are: Infrastructure, Environment, Housing & Sustainability, Urban Design, Leisure Heritage & Community and Employment/Business.

The consultation only runs until the 26th February (hence the urgency).

We’d also be interested in knowing whether (and when) you received one of the leaflets as it will identify who Pegasus are consulting.

Finally, we would be interested in your response to the consultation so if you are willing to share your response with us, please respond to this email or complete our contact us form.



Good afternoon

I am acting on behalf of Bloor Homes and Peveril Homes in preparing a planning application submission for 260 dwellings (including affordable homes) and formal and informal open space at Toton East, off Stapleford Lane (forming part of the Neighbourhood Plan area).

This development will also include the provision of a vehicular access point from Stapleford Lane, a safeguarded road link into the Chetwynd Barracks, pedestrian and cycle links across the site connecting to the tram station and existing rights of way, the creation of green corridors and the provision of supporting infrastructure and utilities.

The site forms part of an already allocated area in the Local Plan known as “Land in the vicinity of the HS2 Station at Toton (Strategic Location for Growth)” (identified in Policy 3.2) as a sustainable location for residential development for at least 3,000 dwellings.

We are keen to share our ideas for the site, which will deliver the first homes of this larger allocation and will facilitate the delivery of the wider allocation and Chetwynd Barracks to the south.

We are undertaking public consultation consisting of a leaflet drop (in the local area to c.850 properties) and a consultation website (www.totoneast.co.uk<http://www.totoneast.co.uk>) which is due to go live on 13th February 2024. The consultation will run until 26th February 2024 and any comments received will be taken into account prior to the submission of a planning application to Broxtowe Borough Council.

Please find attached a copy of the consultation leaflet and Masterplan for the development.

If you have questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards

Alan

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A copy of the leaflet mentioned can be found following this link.

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Broxtowe Cabinet Unanimously Approves our Neighbourhood Plan to proceed to Referendum

At their meeting on the 6th February 2024, the Broxtowe Borough Council Cabinet unanimously approved the Chetwynd: The Toton & Chilwell Neighbourhood Forum Neighbourhood Plan, when modified as per the Independent Examiner’s recommendations, to proceed to Local Referendum.

This means that (at last) we can see the end of the long process of establishing our Neighbourhood Plan as part of the Planning Process for developments in our Local Area.

“All” that is left to do is to update the text of the Plan in line with the Examiner’s Recommendations (not a small task) and to publish the final version. Broxtowe will then organise the Referendum. We will let you know when the Referendum will take place.

If you have any questions, contact us.

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Toton Battery Storage Correction

One of the links in this weekend’s Toton Battery Storage post is no longer working. To view the planning application go to the Broxtowe Planning Application Search page and enter 22/00799/FUL into the search box.

Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

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Neighbourhood Plan – Examiner’s Report

Following on from last week’s post, the Examiner’s Report received on 17th January and concluding the Examination of the Neighbourhood Plan, has now been published on Broxtowe’s website here, and is also linked through from our website Plan page.

The next step of the process is for the Council’s Cabinet to receive and consider the report at its meeting on 6th February, and if no issues raised recommend that the Neighbourhood Plan can move forward to Local Referendum for approval by the community the Forum serves. The agenda and papers for this meeting will appear on this page next week, and there is also a link to watch a live stream of the proceedings from 6pm.

However before the Referendum can proceed, the Neighbourhood Plan will need to be fully updated following the Examiner’s recommendations on the proposed amendments put forward, and be in its final version along with any other supporting documents. This inevitably will take a bit of time, but we aim to start this process next week.

Although dependent on the outcome of the Cabinet meeting, we are aiming to be ready for Broxtowe to be able to hold the Local Referendum on 2nd May, the same date as the County Council and Combined Authority Mayoral elections. This should ensure a good turnout as opposed to going ahead on its own.

Following the meeting on 6th February, we should have a better idea of the timeline for the remaining steps to adoption of the Neighbourhood Plan. It has been a lengthy eight years in the making, and it doesn’t seem possible that we started this journey in 2016, but we did!! We have all travelled a long and winding road (to quote Lennon & McCartney) and we’re looking forward to reaching the end, for a bit of a rest, at least for a while!

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, and we’ll do our best to answer them via the Questions and Answers page.

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