Nottinghamshire & Nottingham Waste Local Plan Examination
Latest Update - 11 June 2025
EXAMINATION LATEST NEWS & TIMELINE
The Inspector's Report has been submitted and published by the Councils. The submission of the Inspector's Report marks the end of the Examination process. The Councils will now proceed to adopt the Local Plan. The Examination website will remain live until the Plan has been adopted and the challenge period has elapsed. The content will be removed thereafter.
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The Planning Inspectorate would like your feedback about the examination. If you were involved in the examination because you made comments in writing and/or you took part in a hearing session, then they would be very pleased if you could fill in this short survey: https://forms.office.com/r/vcT3RaRvtY Any comments you make will be confidential.
Planning Inspector, Stephen Normington B.Sc DipTP MRICS MRTPI FIQ FIHE was appointed to undertake an independent examination into the soundness and legal compliance of the Nottinghamshire & Nottingham Waste Local Plan (the Plan).
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The Inspector's task was to consider the soundness and legal compliance of the submitted Plan, based on the criteria set out in paragraph 35 of the National Planning Policy Framework December 2023 (the Framework) and associated regulations., namely the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, the Localism Act 2011 and the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012.
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THE INSPECTOR
IAN KEMP - PROGRAMME OFFICER
My role is to act as the point contact for any person who has an interest in the Examination and as a liaison between the Inspector, Local Planning Authorities and Representors. ​I am an independent Officer of the Examination and work on behalf of the Inspector to organise and manage the administrative and procedural elements of the Examination process. ​Any matters that anyone wishes to raise with the Inspector should be submitted to me in the first instance.
Address: ​PO Box 241, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9 1DW
Email: ​​ian@localplanservices.co.uk
Telephone: ​07723009166​
GUIDANCE NOTES
Guidance Notes have been prepared by the Inspector to help people understand the process. Procedural Guidance for Local Plans has also been produced by the Planning Inspectorate, together with a short guide aimed at those participating in a local plan examination for the first time.