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.
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.
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 is still being considered and will inform the preparation of the final version of the Shirebrook Growth Plan. This will be reported to Planning Committee in the Autumn for final approval.
Timetable going forward
The timetable for the next stages of the preparation of the Shirebrook Growth Plan is as follows:
- October 2024 - Adoption of the Shirebrook Growth Plan
