Chetwynd Neighbourhood Plan Submission

Regulation 16 Examination Process

Updated 29/02/2024

Broxtowe Decision Statement

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.

Further information in relation to this decision can be found on the Council’s website page for this meeting (Opens in a New Window).

The Borough Council has now produced a ‘Decision Statement’ (Opens in a New Window).


In order to simplify this page, most of the older information can be found in another page by following this link


Updated 08/02/2024

On the 6th February 2024, Broxtowe Borough Council Cabinet unanimously approved the Plan to be modified as recommended by the Independent Examiner and to proceed to referendum.

Public Consultation: Proposed Amendments to the Chetwynd: The Toton and Chilwell Neighbourhood Plan

Broxtowe Council Regulation 16 Consultation

The Regulation 16 Consultation for the Neighbourhood Plan ran from 8th June until 5th August 2022 (the end date was extended by two weeks from 22nd July).

The Neighbourhood Plan

It is supported by three other documents N.B. The two statements have been updated to reflect the Strategic Environmental Assessment process, and the supplementary plan modifications detail the changes made to the Plan in the October 2021 revision from the June 2020 version:

The steps towards Plan adoption have been and are:

  1. A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) (something required by Broxtowe Borough Council in February 2021) has been completed – see the Environmental Report below. Following the report recommendations, a revised Plan was submitted in November 2021;
  2. Broxtowe Borough Council ran a statutory six week ‘Regulation 16’ consultation from 8th June to 22nd July which was then extended to 5th August 2022 – see above;
  3. An Independent Examiner has been appointed by Broxtowe and the Examination of the Plan was held on 10th November 2022 – see above
    The Examiner is required to consider whether our Plan: 
  • has regard to national policy;
  • contributes to the achievement of sustainable development;
  • is in general conformity with the adopted strategic local policies for the local area;
  • is compatible with EU obligations;
  • meets human rights requirements.

Following the Examiner’s post hearing letter & annex, the Plan needs to be further revised – see above

Once the modifications to the Plan have been completed and agreed with Broxtowe and the Examiner is satisfied, the Plan will be submitted to the Local Community for Referendum. We had oiginally hoped that this would be in May/June 2021, but the SEA and the processes within Broxtowe have delayed this now until spring 2023 at the earliest. We’ll be in contact to get your support when the time is right.

After that (assuming it passes the referendum) the Neighbourhood Plan will be “made” and be adopted by Broxtowe. It will then influence Planning Decisions by Broxtowe Borough Council for our Area.

See our Plan submission process Roadmap here. N.B. This is now out of date and awaiting an update from Broxtowe following the completion of the SEA process, Regulation 16 Consultation & Independent Examination.

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SEA Report
We received the final report from AECOM at the end of September 2021:

The SEA Environmental Report is here it incorporates the SEA Scoping Report from April 2021 as Appendix A.

We have updated the Plan to reflect the recommendations made in this report.

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Previous Versions of the Neighbourhood Plan

As historic information the previous versions of the plan are available using the links below:
June 2020 Draft Plan submitted to Broxtowe Borough Council on 18th June 2020
Basic Conditions Statement June 2020
Consultation Statement June 2020
Plan Modifications following Regulation 14 Public Consultation
July 2019 Plan for Public Comment

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