Before you submit an application: You must use the standard national 1APP planning application forms. Your application may need to be accompanied by a range of additional information before it can be accepted. Check you have complied with the Validation Requirements.  We cannot register your application otherwise. Make sure all plans and drawings have critical dimensions and a recognised metric scale marked on them, including heights, width and length of buildings and extensions and distance...

Window) Submit a Planning Application Planning Application Forms The following leaflets and links may also be helpful: Public Speaking at Planning Committee Leaflet (.pdf)(337KB)(Opens in New Window) (Opens in New Window) Code of Good Practice Leaflet (.pdf)(337KB)(Opens in New Window) (Opens in New Window) Working from Home Leaflet  (Opens in New Window) Enforcing Planning Control Leaflet(.pdf)(324KB)(Opens in New Window)(Opens in New Window) 'Plain English' Guide to the Planning System L...

Before submitting your application, please ensure you have complied with the Validation Requirements otherwise we cannot register your application.  The standard national 1APP planning application forms must be used and your application may need to be accompanied by a range of additional information before it can be accepted.  Please see the Validation Checklists relating to the type of application you want to submit. We encourage the submission of planning applications electronically through...

Introduction What are planning obligations? Section 106 (S106) Agreements are legal agreements between developers and the Council for certain types developments consented by major planning permissions. They are financial and non-financial requirements which are also known as “Planning Obligations". S106 agreements are drafted when it is considered that a development will have significant impacts on the local area that cannot be mitigated by means of conditions attached to a planning decision....

Under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 you can apply for prior approval for single storey rear extensions between: 3 metres and 6 metres for terraced or semi-detached houses 4 metres and 8 metres for detached houses The legislation means that Planning Permission may not always be required for extensions meeting these requirements. You can check what fees may be required on our fee sheet(.pdf)(162KB)(Opens in New Window) (Opens in a New Windo...

The Part 2 Local Plan allocates specific sites to meet the development requirements set out in the Aligned Core Strategy and details further policies against which future planning applications will be assessed. Broxtowe undertook a consultation from Monday 18th September 2017 until Friday 3rd November 2017.  THIS CONSULTATION HAS NOW CLOSED. The Part 2 Local Plan and supporting documents can be viewed and downloaded by clicking on the links below. The Part 2 Local Plan Document (.pdf) (35.1MB...

A tree preservation order (TPO) is a piece of statute law that comes under the: Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and the Town and Country Planning (trees) Regulations 1999 The basic function of the law is to enable the protection of valuable trees that contribute to an area's landscape and amenity. TPO trees are usually mature, of good form and, most importantly, can be clearly seen from a public area. However, other factors are also relevant such as historic value, practical value (e...

The Submission Version of the plan was the subject of discussion at the Jobs and Economy Committee on the 16th July 2018 and a Full Council meeting on the 18th July 2018. The recommendation for both of the meetings was to submit the Plan to the Secretary of State. The Plan has been amended following the consideration of representations made to the consultation on the Publication Version which closed in November 2017. The Part 2 Local Plan allocates specific sites to meet the development requi...

Awsworth Parish Council has produced a Neighbourhood Plan for Awsworth Parish. Following a Referendum held on 10 June 2021, Broxtowe Borough Council resolved to ‘make’ (adopt) the Awsworth Neighbourhood Plan on 21 July 2021. The Awsworth Neighbourhood Plan will therefore be used when making decisions on planning applications within the Parish of Awsworth, alongside Broxtowe Borough Council's Local Plan.  Awsworth Neighbourhood Plan Final Version July 2021(.pdf)(7MB)(Opens in new window) (Op...