New Waste Local Plan

Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council are working together to prepare a new Waste Local Plan which will replace the previous Adopted Waste Local Plan (2002) and the Waste Core Strategy (2013).

The new Waste Local Plan will provide the future planning strategy for waste management in Nottinghamshire and Nottingham until 2038 and will aim to provide sufficient capacity to meet future needs. It will also provide key policies against which future waste development will be assessed.

A timetable for the development of the new Waste Local Plan can be found within the Local Development Scheme.

Latest News

The Inspectors Report on the Examination of the Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Waste Local Plan [PDF] was issued on 10 June 2025. This now concludes the independent examination of the Waste Local Plan. 

The Inspectors Report recommends a number of Main Modifications to the Waste Local Plan [PDF] to ensure it is sound. A Schedule of the Main Modifications  are appended to the Inspectors Report. With these modifications, the Inspector concludes that the Plan is sound and so capable of adoption. Both the County Council and City Council will now move forward with formally adopting the Waste Local Plan. It is anticipated that this will be in September 2025. 

If you were involved in the examination because you made comments in writing and/or you took part in a hearing session, the Planning Inspectorate would like your feedback about the examination. Any comments you make will be confidential. 

Examination of the Waste Local Plan

The Councils submitted the Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Waste Local Plan to the Planning Inspectorate on behalf of the Secretary of State, on the 5 March 2024. All submission documents and examination documents are hosted and can be viewed on the Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Waste Local Plan Examination.

Following response to the Inspectors Matters, Issues and Questions, hearing sessions were then held in October 2024. As a result of the examination process so far, the Councils have proposed modifications to the Plan and consulted on these amendments in January and February 2025.

All representations on the modifications were submitted to the Inspector, who considered the representations made. The Inspector’s Report was issued on the 10 June 2025, which formally concluded the examination of the Waste Local Plan.

Previous Consultations

Modifications to the Waste Local Plan

Following the hearing sessions held in October 2024, the Councils proposed modifications to the Waste Local Plan, without prejudice to the Inspector’s final conclusions on the Plan. The proposed Main modifications to the Pre-Submission Draft Waste Local Plan and supporting documents was published for consultation between the 8 January and the 19 February 2025.

The consultation period has now closed, and we are no longer accepting representations. All representations can be viewed on Opus Consult. As the consultation is no longer live, the representations for the modifications are under the heading 'historic documents'. You can then click on each of the documents and click on the magnify glass or search representations. All representations have been submitted to the Inspector. 

Pre-Submission Draft Waste Local Plan

Following consultation on the Draft Plan, we prepared a Pre-Submission draft Plan along with supporting documents, which are below, and published these for formal consultation between the 30 August and the 11 October 2023:

The consultation period has now closed, and we are no longer accepting representations. All comments received can be viewed on the Opus Consult web page.  As the consultation is no longer live, the representations for the Pre-Submission Draft Plan are under the heading 'historic documents'. You can then go through the Plan document and click on the magnify glass to see representations on the section displaying.

All representations received during the consultation period have been considered by the Councils and have been passed on to the Planning Inspectorate to consider as part of the Independent Examination.

Draft Plan

A Draft Plan, informed by the results of the previous consultation and evidence of future need for recycling and waste sites was published for public and stakeholder comment between the 7 February and the 4 April 2022. The following documents were published for consultation:

All comments received can be viewed on the Opus Consult web page.  As the consultation is no longer live, the Draft Plan is located in 'historic documents'. 

As part of the consultation on the Plan we held an online event  - “Nottinghamshire and Nottingham – Planning for Waste”  on Friday 11 February 2022. You can watch the event: 

After the Draft Waste Local Plan consultation, we noted an error in the Strategic Objectives in the Draft Plan. Further detail is explained in the Errata Note [PDF].

Issues and options

The first stage of the new Plan has been completed with consultation on issues and options for the Plan running from 27 February until 7 May 2020. The following documents were published for this consultation.

Key contact points

Nottinghamshire County Council is administering the preparation of the Plan on behalf of both Councils. You can contact us directly by email at planning.policy@nottscc.gov.uk or via our customer service team on 0300 500 8080

Nottinghamshire County Council’s Planning Policy Service is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring all personal information is kept confidential and safe. Read our privacy statements - County Councils' and Planning Policy.

Nottingham City Council’s Planning Policy and Research Team is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring all personal information is kept confidential and safe. View the Privacy Notice for Planning and Policy Research at Nottingham City Council [PDF].