Neighbourhood Planning

Blaby Parish Council applied for the Parish of Blaby to be designated as a Neighbourhood Area. Following a six-week consultation period, the Neighbourhood Area designation was approved in 2014.

Blaby District Council has issued a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) screening opinion report and determination in relation to the draft Blaby Neighbourhood Plan in which it was determined that the Plan is likely to have significant environmental effects and that an environmental assessment of it is therefore required.

The determination and accompanying full screening opinion are available to download below.

Blaby examination

Blaby Parish Council submitted the proposed Neighbourhood Plan to Blaby District Council, who undertook the statutory six-week pre-submission consultation. The Neighbourhood Plan submission version and supporting documents are available to download below.

At a Full Council meeting, the Examiner's recommended modifications to the Plan as set out in the Examiner's Report were considered and all proposed modifications to the Plan were accepted. A copy of the Regulation 18 decision statement is available to download below.

Blaby referendum

A referendum was held on the Blaby Neighbourhood Plan on Thursday 1 February 2018.

Following a positive referendum result, Blaby District Council is publishing its decision to 'make' the Blaby Neighbourhood Plan part of Blaby District's Development Plan. The decision statement is available to view below.

Glenfield background information

Glenfield Parish Council applied for the Parish of Glenfield (in its entirety) to be designated as a Neighbourhood Area, with a view to producing a Neighbourhood Plan. The statement and map below comprise the application submitted. Following a statutory six-week consultation between May-July 2018, the Neighbourhood Area designated application was approved on 23 July 2018.

A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Screening Opinion Report for the draft Glenfield Neighbourhood Plan determined that it is unlikely to have significant environmental effects and that an environmental assessment of the Plan is therefore not required. The determination and accompanying full screening report can be downloaded below.

A public consultation took place between 1 November 2021 and 13 December 2021 on the pre-submission version of the Glenfield Neighbourhood Plan. 

A public consultation on the submission version of the Glenfield Neighbourhood Plan concluded on Tuesday 14 March 2023. The Representations received during this consultation can be found below, in the downloads section, under Summary of Representations.

Glenfield examination

In accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012, Glenfield Parish Council (as qualifying body) submitted the Glenfield Neighbourhood Plan to Blaby District Council for Examination.

The independent examiner has now issued the examiner’s report. The report is available in the Downloads section below.

Subject to a number of modifications, the report concludes the Glenfield Neighbourhood Plan can proceed to referendum.

Glenfield Neighbourhood Plan was presented to Council on 27 September 2023 for approval to proceed to referendum. Approval was given and a referendum will now be held on Thursday 23 November 2023. A Referendum Decision Statement has been issued and is available in the downloads section below. Further information detailing the referendum will be made available shortly.  

Cosby examination

Cosby Parish Council, as a qualifying body submitted the "Cosby Neighbourhood Plan" to Blaby District Council for Examination in accordance with the neighbourhood planning regulations. Following an independent examination, the Cosby Neighbourhood Plan and the Examiner's Report was presented to Council on 20 September 2022. Council accepted all of the Examiner's suggested modifications and for the Plan to proceed to referendum. The Regulation 18 Decision Statement can be viewed below.

Cosby referendum

A referendum on the Cosby Neighbourhood Plan was held on 24 November 2022. Following a positive referendum result, Blaby District Council voted to 'make' the Cosby Neighbourhood Plan part of Blaby District's Development Plan. The decision statement is available to view below and the made Neighbourhood Plan can be viewed on the Cosby Parish Council website via the external links section below. 

Cosby background information

Cosby Neighbourhood Area Cosby Parish Council has applied for the Parish of Cosby (in its entirety) to be designated as a Neighbourhood Area, with a view to producing a Neighbourhood Plan. The statement and map below comprise the application submitted. Following a statutory six-week consultation, the Neighbourhood Area designation application was approved on 11 October 2017.

A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Screening Opinion Report for the draft Cosby Neighbourhood Plan determined that it is unlikely to have significant environmental effects and that an environmental assessment of the Plan is therefore not required. The determination and accompanying full screening report can be downloaded below.

Fosse Villages latest update

The Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Planning Group have chosen to update the Neighbourhood Plan to reinstate Local Green Space designations in the parishes of Huncote, Sharnford and Stoney Stanton. The proposed new Local Green Spaces are incorporated in Policy FV5 and the related policy maps. Other than consequential revisions, there are no further changes to the Neighbourhood Plan.

A formal consultation took place between Friday 16 June and Friday 28 July 2023 with the following documents being consulted on:

• Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan Update 2023
• Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan Basic Conditions Statement 2023
• Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan Consultation Statement 2023

The consultation documents are still available to view below but responses can no longer be submitted. 

The updated Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan is now at the independent examination stage. 

Fosse Villages background information

Following Elmesthorpe Parish Council's decision to formally withdraw from the original Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan, the remaining ten Parishes were designated as a new Neighbourhood Area in January 2016. The Neighbourhood Area comprises the Parishes of: Aston Flamville, Croft, Huncote, Leicester Forest West, Potters Marston, Sapcote, Sharnford, Stoney Stanton, Thurlaston and Wigston Parva.  

The Neighbourhood Plan has been prepared by the Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Planning Group. The Group comprises members of the local community and local Parish Councillors, with the support of Blaby District Council and consultants Plan-IT X, and under the direction of Sapcote Parish Council (the Qualifying Body for the Plan).

Following an independent examination, the Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan 2021 and the Examiner's Report were presented to Blaby District Council on 20 February 2020. Blaby District Council accepted all of the Examiner's suggested modifications and for the Plan to proceed to referendum. The Regulation 18 Decision Statement can be viewed below.

A referendum on the Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan was held on 6 May 2021 after a delay due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Following a positive referendum result, Blaby District Council decided to 'make' the Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan part of Blaby District's Development Plan. The Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Plan was made on 17 June 2021. The Regulation 19 Decision Statement is available to view below.

The Fosse Villages Neighbourhood Area designation was approved in 2013 with the material supporting the application submitted, available to download below.

Following Elmesthorpe Parish Council formally withdrawing from the Fosse Villages Plan, the remaining ten Parishes formed a separate Neighbourhood Area, with the boundary of the original document modified to extend only as far as the boundary of Elmesthorpe Parish. This was renamed the Elmesthorpe Neighbourhood Area.

The map defining the extent of the Elmesthorpe Neighbourhood Area is available to download below.

LFE Neighbourhood Plan 'made'

Leicester Forest East Parish Council, as Qualifying Body, submitted the Leicester Forest East Neighbourhood Plan to Blaby District Council for Examination in accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning regulations. Blaby District Council, with the agreement of Leicester Forest East Parish Council, appointed an independent examiner to review whether the Plan met the Basic Conditions required by legislation and should proceed to referendum. Blaby District Council accepted all but one recommendation of the Examiner and following a further public consultation, an additional modification was made to the Plan to correct factual errors.

A public referendum was held on Thursday 30 June 2022 and the Plan was supported by the public. Following the public referendum, Blaby District Council 'made' the Neighbourhood Plan at a meeting of Council on 19 July 2022.

The Decision Statement can be viewed in the downloads section below and the submitted Plan and its accompanying documents can still be viewed on the Leicester Forest East Parish Council website in the external links section.

LFE background information

Leicester Forest East Parish Council applied for the Parish of Leicester Forest East, in its entirety, to be designated as a Neighbourhood Area, with a view to producing a Neighbourhood Plan. The statement and map below comprise the application submitted. Following the statutory six-week consultation the Neighbourhood Area designation application was approved in May 2016.

Our Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) screening opinion report for the draft Leicester Forest East Neighbourhood Plan determined that it is unlikely to have significant environmental effects and that an environmental assessment of the Plan is therefore not required. The determination and accompanying full screening opinion can be downloaded below.