Conformity

The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and accompanying Regulations and Secondary legislation gave East Midlands Regional Assembly as the Regional Planning Body (RPB) a duty to respond to consultation on:

• Planning applications that the RPB considers are of strategic importance (Schedule 6, paragraph 16 of the Act);
• Development Plan Documents (Section 24 of the Act); and;
• Any other Local Development Documents on which the local planning authority requires an opinion from the RPB (Section 24 of the Act).

EMRA have produced an Advice Note [40KB PDF] which sets out the RPB’s requirements in response to the Act and specifies how these requirements should be fulfilled by the local planning authority.

Please email conformity@emra.gov.uk with your Planning Applications, DPDs and general RSS conformity queries.

For a list of consultations currently being dealt with by EMRA click here.

The East Midlands Region covers the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire, and includes the unitary authorities of Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Rutland. For the purposes of the Regional Plan, the whole of the Peak District National Park, which includes areas outside Derbyshire, is treated as part of the East Midlands Region.

The East Midlands Regional Plan March 2009 comprises the Regional Spatial Strategy for the East Midlands for the period up to 2026 under the provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. It replaces RSS8 issued by the Government in March 2005 except for paragraphs 1 – 70 of Section 6 comprising Part A of the Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub-Regional Strategy (MKSM SRS) which remains extant. It also replaces all policies in adopted structure plans except for the Northamptonshire Structure Plan Policy SDA1 which remains extant. A schedule showing how structure plan policies have been replaced is appended to the Schedule of Proposed Changes published with the East Midlands Regional Plan.