In March 2025, Bassetlaw District published a Local Development Scheme which sets out a timetable for reviewing its Local Plan. It is now anticipated that scoping/early participation (and potentially a call for sites) will take place in 2025/2026, with evidence gathering/drafting the plan/proposed allocations/submission being during 2026-2028, examination in late 2028/2029 and adoption of the Plan in summer 2029. The change in Government has resulted in a higher and new government mandated housing requirement figure of 613 homes per annum. In the years leading up to the adoption of the Local Plan, the Council were supporting the allocation of a new settlement (Bassetlaw Garden Village) located adjacent the Apleyhead Interchange. The Council produced a New Settlement document in January 2020 that reviewed various sites before deciding upon Apleyhead as its preferred location. The site was removed from the Local Plan in 2022 before the Local Plan got close to adoption on the understanding that land owners had said that the site was no longer ‘available’. It is our view that the subject site has strong prospects for delivering a new settlement given its single ownership, strategic location near the A1, Worksop and Retford and the contained nature of the site. This enables opportunities for garden village principles to be considered, improving access to and carefully masterplanning around the canal to meet housing needs in the forthcoming plan period.
Offers If this opportunity is of interest, please ensure your offer includes the following:
i. Confirmation that you are content to proceed by way of a Planning Promotion Agreement or Hybrid Promotion Agreement. ii. Whether your organisation has the ability to construct and deliver infrastructure (where it makes commercial sense to do so and in agreement with the landowner) and any required % management fee. iii. Proposed length of agreement terms, clearly indicating extension periods. iv. Fee payable in consideration of the initial term and extension periods. v. Level of percentage return required under the Agreement. vi. Planning promotion cost caps. vii. Confirmation that you are not promoting unallocated or potentially competing major schemes elsewhere in Bassetlaw District. viii. An outline planning strategy of how you propose to promote the site. ix. Details of other sites you are promoting of a similar scale to demonstrate your credentials in the promotion of strategic land to our client. x. Track record politically and in terms of stakeholder engagement in Bassetlaw District or in Nottinghamshire. xi. Confirmation of payment of landowners’ professional fees (including agent and legal) xii. Necessary Board Approval for any offer to be submitted.
Closing date for offers: Midday on Thursday 5th June 2025 via email to Jonathan Wood and Richard Wain.
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