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.  

Saved Structure Plan Policies

The Secretary of State has issued Directions in relation to policies in the following Structure Plans :-

1. Derby and Derbyshire Joint Structure Plan (Adopted January 2001) [480KB PDF]

2. Northamptonshire County Structure Plan (Adopted March 2001) [480KB PDF]

3. Peak National Park Structure Plan ( Adopted April 1994) [600KB PDF]

4. Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Joint Structure Plan (Adopted March 2005) [620KB] 

The policies not listed in the Directions for Derby and Derbyshire, Northamptonshire and the Peak District National Park expired on 27th September 2007. The policies not listed in the Direction for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland expired on 6th March 2008.