New Local Plan

Draft North West Leicestershire Local Plan: Additional Proposed Housing and Employment Allocations public consultation 

21 March to 2 May 2025

This consultation adds to the Proposed Housing and Employment Allocations consultation we undertook in 2024 by proposing 13 additional housing sites, one additional employment site and one amended employment site. We are also consulting on two potential ‘reserve’ housing sites. The reasons underpinning the need for these additional/amended sites are set out in the consultation document.

At this time we are only consulting on the sites listed in Tables 1, 2 and 3 and detailed in Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the consultation document. We will not consider any comments we receive about any other sites. There will be a further consultation opportunity for all proposed site allocations later on in the process. 

Consultation Document

Draft North West Leicestershire Local Plan: Additional Proposed Housing and Employment Allocations Consultation Document (PDF Document, 3.82 Mb)

Hard copies of the consultation document are available to view at the Customer Centre, Belvoir Road, Coalville and at the libraries within the district during normal opening hours.

How to respond

Please email your comments to: localplan@nwleicestershire.gov.uk

Or post them to: Planning Policy and Land Charges Team, North West Leicestershire District Council, PO Box 11051, Coalville, LE67 0FW.

Please ensure that your comments are accompanied by the relevant site name and reference, your name, postal address and email address (if you have one).

The consultation closes at 11:59pm on Friday 2 May.

As required by legislation, consultation responses will be made public as part of the preparation of the Local Plan making process. We will keep your details on our consultation database for future reference. Your contact details will be protected under data protection legislation but your name and any comments you make will be publicly viewable. We will keep your details on our consultation database so we can update you about future Local Plan consultations. If you do not wish this to happen or if your contact details have changed, please email the Planning Policy team at planning.policy@nwleicestershire.gov.uk.

Background information

In support of the Additional Proposed Housing and Employment Allocations consultation document, we have assessed 16 additonal housing sites and four addiitonal employment sites that were submitted to us after the pubication of the 2021 Strategic Housing and Employment Land Availability Assessment and considered whether these would be suitable for allocation. For housing, we have also revisited our original site assessments.

The Site Assessements are published on the Site Assessment section of our Evidence Base page.

Between January and March 2024, we sought views on our Proposed Housing and Employment Allocations for Consultation document.

2025 Call for Sites: General Needs Employment and Lorry Parking

The consultation document identifies that there could be a shortfall of general needs employment land during the plan period and we may need to allocate further land. 

We would also like to hear from you with details of potential employment sites which we have not previously considered and also possible lorry parking locations.

For more information and to submit a site please use the Site Submission form on our Submit a Site webpage.

Email the completed form to planning.policy@nwleicestershire.gov.uk by 11.59pm on Friday 2 May 2025.

What has happened so far?

Adopted Local Plan

The North West Leicestershire Local Plan was adopted on 21 November 2017. It sets out a strategy for delivering the homes, jobs and infrastructure needed in the district between 2011 and 2031. Policy S1 of the plan says we needed to start a review within three months of adoption. The Partial Review has been completed and we are now working on our new Local Plan.  

New Local Plan 

We have already undertaken a number of consultations. More information can be found on the New Local Plan – progress so far page.

We are also updating various parts of our Evidence Base and undertaking a Sustainability Appraisal.

What is the timetable for the New Local Plan?

The timetable for the preparation of the new Local Plan is set out in the Local Development Scheme.

Local Plan Consultation Database

Please note: If you wish to be kept informed of progress on the new Local Plan, you can email us at planning.policy@nwleicestershire.gov.uk with your name, organisation (if applicable), postal address and email and we can then keep you up to date with future consultations.