New Oadby and Wigston Local Plan

Important update: Government halts Oadby & Wigston’s Local Plan with demand for even higher housing numbers

Latest Position (Winter 2025)

The Council’s new local housing need (LHN) figure has increased significantly under the revised standard methodology (December 2024) to 382 dwellings per annum, meaning that the Council has been forced to ‘pause’ progress on the recently publicly consulted Regulation 19 draft Local Plan which set out a spatial strategy to deliver 240 dwellings per annum (142 dwellings per annum less than the new LHN figure).

For further details regarding the Council’s latest timetable for delivery of the emerging draft Local Plan, please visit the Council’s Local Development Scheme webpage.

Regulation 19 Pre-Submission Draft Local Plan (2020-2041)

Following consultation of the Regulation 18B Preferred Options document in Spring 2024, the Council published the full version of the Regulation 19 Pre-Submission Draft Local Plan in January 2025.

The consultation period ran from 12pm Friday 10 January 2025 to 12pm Friday 21 February 2025.

The following documents were of relevance to this public consultation:

• Regulation 19 Pre-Submission Draft Local Plan – January 2025 (PDF Document, 1.72 Mb)

• Regulation 19 Draft Adopted Policies Map – January 2025 (PDF Document, 449.42 Kb)

• Regulation 19 Sustainability Appraisal Report – December 2024 (PDF Document, 10.85 Mb)

• Regulation 19 Habitat Regulations Assessment Report – November 2024 (PDF Document, 4.14 Mb)

• Regulation 19 Statement of Representation Procedure and Availability of Documents – January 2025 (PDF Document, 77.2 Kb)

• Regulation 18 Statement of Consultation Report (Winter 2024) (PDF Document, 3.62 Mb)

• Regulation 19 Local Plan Equality Impact Assessment – December 2024 (PDF Document, 353.59 Kb)

• Regulation 19 Local Plan Health Impact Assessment – December 2024 (PDF Document, 2.94 Mb)

• Regulation 19 Duty to Co-operate Statement – January 2025 (PDF Document, 367.54 Kb)

Local Plan Evidence Base

The Local Plan evidence base contains the reports and studies which helped to shape the Regulation 19 Local Plan. This evidence is grouped into themes and can be accessed here.

Hard copies of the consultation documents were available to view at the following locations during the public consultation period:

• Brocks Hill Council Offices, Washbrook Lane, Oadby, LE2 5JJ

• Oadby Library, 10, The Parade, Oadby, LE2 5BF

• Wigston Library, Bull Head Street, LE18 1PA

• South Wigston Library, Bassett Street, South Wigston, LE18 4PE

The Council also prepared a Regulation 19 Local Plan FAQs sheet to assist in digesting the relevant key information.

Regulation 19 Local Plan FAQs Sheet (PDF Document, 416.83 Kb)

Responding to the consultation

All stakeholders were invited to download the Representations Submission Form(s) and attach any relevant supporting evidence. We encouraged respondents to use a new submission form for every separate matter, such as Policy, Paragraph or Site Options.

Representations Submission Form (Word Document, 71.44 Kb)

Each form and any relevant supporting evidence must have been sent to us via:

• Email: planningpolicy@oadby-wigston.gov.uk

• Post: Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, FAO. Planning Policy Team, Brocks Hill Council Offices, Washbrook Lane, Oadby, LE2 5JJ

Stakeholders were encouraged to remember to include the chapter, policy and paragraph their comments relate to on each Submission Form to ensure that the Council’s Planning Policy Team could accurately review and take account of the comments received as part of this process.

Current Local Plan

Until the New Local Plan has been through each stage of public consultation, as per the Council’s up to date Local Development Scheme, and formally adopted by the Council, the current adopted Local Plan is still up-to-date.