WILLOUGHBY

Vote:  31 For / 5 Against / 2 Abstentions

The six week public consultation (Regulation 19) will begin on Friday, 30 January 2026.

The Rugby Borough Council meeting to consider the Submission Plan will be held on 27 January. The link to the agenda and Live stream is www.rugby.gov.uk/web/guest/l/62077913.

If the consultation on the Plan and submission to the Secretary of State is approved, the public consultation should start on 30 January for six weeks. The consultation will invite comments on the Plan’s soundness and legal compliance. After considering feedback, RBC will submit the finalised plan to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, via the Planning Inspectorate, for an examination in public.

The proposed Submission Plan has been published. Please click on Read More to find out more about RBC meetings relevant to the public consultation and submission of the Plan for the examination in public.

The Consultation paper for the new Regulation 19 version of the Local Plan was uploaded on Friday, 19 December to the RBC website, together with the agenda, for the RBC Cabinet Meeting, on Friday 6 January 2026. Lodge Farm has not been allocated in the new version of the Plan. This is really great news for the thousands of people who campaigned against it as being a ‘reasonable alternative scenario’.

If you click on the link at the bottom of this news item (click Read More), it will take you to the Consultation paper - all 469 pages of it! Information about why Lodge Farm has not been allocated (it is now an omission site) is on pages 181 - 183, so an easy read. There is also more detailed information in Appendix 12 pages 453 - 467 which brings together most of the points made by campaigners during the consultation.

The next RBC Cabinet meeting is on Tuesday, 6 January 2026. If the new version of the Local Plan (Regulation 19) is approved by Cabinet, there will be a vote on the Plan at the Council meeting on 21 January 2026. If the Plan is approved at both meetings, a final public consultation will open on 26 January. This consultation will invite comments on the Plan’s soundness and legal compliance. After considering feedback, RBC will submit the finalised plan to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government via the Planning Inspectorate.

If you wish to watch the meetings live, go to rugby.gov.uk/committees-meetings  and click on the relevant meeting to watch the Live stream videos.

The car park opposite the village hall on the other side of Main Street is private land and belongs to the Parish Council for the benefit of residents, their visitors, and users of local community facilities. The Council intends to clarify the terms of use for the car park to include: Short-term parking only (12 hours maximum in any 24 hours) for cars, motorcycles and small vans. The Car Park is not intended for long-term vehicle storage or commercial use.

If you wish to comment on this proposal, please contact Jo Jarman, our Parish Clerk, by 5.00pm on Wednesday, 5 November.  Email clerk@willoughbyparishcouncil.org or phone 07809 197817. Thank you.