We have decided to prepare a Growth Plan for Shirebrook. The Growth Plan will be a dedicated plan for Shirebrook, setting out plans for how Shirebrook could grow and prosper over the next five years and beyond. It will cover issues such as living and working in Shirebrook, and will particularly focus on the town centre and the Market Place and environmental issues.
What happened previously?
We started the preparation of the Shirebrook Growth Plan in February 2022 and ran an initial consultation exercise during March 2022. Feedback on what the people of Shirebrook said during this consultation exercise is set out in the Shirebrook Growth Plan newsletter issue 1 but the full comments are available in the initial consultation response (June 2022) document.
Following this exercise, we ran a second stage of consultation during September 2022 which focused on masterplanning to understand what land uses the people of Shirebrook thought any growth in the town should include. Feedback on what the people of Shirebrook said during this consultation exercise has been presented through a Virtual Reality Balloon Ride. The full comments are available in the consultation responses (January 2023) document.
Based on this feedback, we prepared a Draft Growth Plan which outlines the consultation feedback to date and the policy framework for the Growth Plan, before setting out a number of options for additional growth and other questions about Shirebrook’s town centre, green spaces and countryside and this was subject to public consultation during March and April 2024.
The feedback from this exercise has been summarised and those summaries are available to view in the Shirebrook Growth Plan consultation report. The feedback has been considered and has informed the preparation of a preferred growth option for the final Shirebrook Growth Plan. This preferred growth option was reported to planning committee in November 2024, and was approved for the purposes of engagement with infrastructure providers and site promoters to establish in more detail what infrastructure is required to deliver the preferred growth option and to seek to address the concerns from the local community and other respondents in the consultation report. The approved preferred growth option is presented as the Shirebrook Growth Plan: Preferred Option Briefing Note.
Timetable going forward
The timetable for the next stages of the preparation of the Shirebrook Growth Plan is as follows:
- December 2024 – Engagement with infrastructure providers and landowners
- March 2025 – Adoption of Shirebrook Growth Plan
