Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan 2045

Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council are jointly preparing a new  Minerals Local Plan, which will set out the minerals strategy for the area until 2045.

The new Plan is expected to be adopted in late 2029 and will replace the adopted Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan (2021). Until then, the adopted Plan will remain in force and continue to be used when making planning decisions.

Latest news

10 November 2026

Our scoping consultation closed at 5pm on the 9 November. We are no longer accepting representations. Thank you to all who made comments. 

We will now consider your comments and continue to develop further evidence to progress the Plan.

We hope to be able to run a call for sites exercise in early 2027. This will ask mineral operators, developers and landowners to submit potential sites for future mineral development in Nottinghamshire and Nottingham. 

Further information will be published on this page when available. As set out in the timetable, we aim to publish our Gateway 1 self – assessment by April 2027

12 October 2026

Our scoping consultation went live on 12 October 2026. The consultation is now closed. We are no longer accepting representations. 

31 July 2026

On 31 July 2026, the councils have jointly published:  

• Local Plan timetable
• Notice of intention to commence plan preparation.

Which includes information about the new Plan and key stages in its preparation, such as: 

• what areas the new Plan will cover
• the geographical area the Plan will cover
• planned dates for key milestones, including consultations.

This marks the start of preparing a new Minerals Local Plan under the Plan-Making Regulations 2026.

What happens next

The scoping consultation is now closed, the councils will begin to analyse your responses. 

Currently, we anticipate that a call for sites exercise will be undertaken in early 2027. More information will be published on this webpage.

As shown in the timetable, the councils intend to publish our Gateway 1 self – assessment by the 16 April 2027.

If you would like to be notified when the consultation opens, please go to our consultation portal (Opus Consult) and create or log into your account. Please tick 'New Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan 2045' as the topic of interest. 

Contact us

If you have any questions relating to the new Nottinghamshire Minerals Local Plan, please contact us via email at: [email protected]