NEW Tuxford Neighbourhood Plan

Please see the 'Neighbourhood Plan' link alongside the left-hand side for more information.

Tuxford has started on a remaking of the Neighbourhood Plan. It is a good time to be doing this as Bassetlaw is at the final stages of creating a new Plan for the District, and Tuxford's Neighbourhood Plan must be aligned with it.

Thanks to the fantastic response to the online questionnaire, to which there were over 400 responses, we have a solid evidence base for the input to the next Plan. This will also feed into a Neighbourhood Priority Statement. This will be a binding legal document which Bassetlaw District Council will be obliged to respect.

There are some constraints - a minimum housing commitment of 252 additional houses between 2021 and 2038 (so all the recent houses in Tuxford count towards this). New housing means developer commitments which then feed back into Tuxford's community infrastructure; so provided it is what we want to see, where we want it to be, it is a good thing and the only way to secure the sort of new (and upgraded) things we want to see and Tuxford deserves.

The Planning Committee of Tuxford Town Council has been working hard during the past year or so to put the building block in place. We have started a library of documents which we encourage anyone to look at.

We have provided input to Bassetlaw's Plan, to protect Tuxford's interests, and we have engaged with consultants to make a Design Codes document for Tuxford. This is a legal document, linked ot the last Neighbourhood Plan but consistent with the next one, which defines what all new building in Tuxford needs to look like. This is a major step forward as Tuxford has never had this before (although there were architecture sections within the Conservation Area Assessment).

These can be found in the Library link below.

We now urgently need some members of the public to volunteer to join up and participate in the creation of the New Neighbourhood Plan between now and April, 2024. If you are interested, please email the clerk - clerk@tuxfordtowncouncil.gov.uk