Submission of the Rugby Borough Local Plan 2025-2042

Help us update your Local Plan

The Local Plan sets out planning policies and proposals for new development to make sure the Rugby Borough is a great place to live, work and do business.

It is prepared in consultation with residents, businesses and other stakeholders.

Councils must review their Local Plan every five years. Rugby borough’s current plan was approved in 2019.

The Local Plan defines many things, including:

  • where housing can be built.
  • which land can be used to provide employment.
  • how vital infrastructure needs can be met, such as schools, green spaces, health care facilities and transport links.
  • how the borough will mitigate and adapt to climate change.

What is the Preferred Option?

The Preferred Option Consultation Document sets out a proposed development strategy for the borough for the period 2024-2045. This identifies what development and land use should go where. It also includes draft development management policies to be used for determining planning applications, including policies to tackle issues we identified in the ‘Issues and Options’ consultation in October 2023.  

This Preferred Option Consultation Document has been shaped by:
  • your feedback to the ‘Issues and Options’ consultation (Oct 23- Feb 24).
  • land submitted to us through the call for sites (Oct 23-Feb 24) or identified from other sources.
  • changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), the latest being December 2024.
  • new technical evidence on a range of topics.
View the preferred options consultation document
Documents informing the Preferred Options consultation document
The borough's current Local Plan
Information on the Issues and Options consultation

The Local Plan was submitted to the Secretary of State on 27 April 2026.

Submission documents include:

The Rugby Local Plan Examination webpage will provide up-to-date information regarding the examination and examination hearings. It will also hold the examination documents.

Where to view the documents

All documents can be viewed on the Rugby Local Plan Examination webpage. This includes all documents referred to in Regulation 22(3)(i) to (iii) of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 (as amended).

Hard copies of the Submission Local Plan document, the Sustainability Appraisal, the Policies Map, the Consultation Statement and Consultation Statement Addendum, and other supporting evidence base documents will be deposited at the following locations for inspection within normal opening hours:

  • Rugby Borough Council, Town Hall, Evreux Way, Rugby CV21 2RR
  • Rugby Library and Information Centre, Little Elborow Street, Rugby CV21 3BZ
  • Dunchurch Community Library, The Green, Dunchurch, Rugby CV22 6PA
  • Wolston Library and Information Centre, Manor Estate, Wolston, CV8 3GX

Representations received in response to the consultation on the Proposed Submission Local Plan (pursuant to Regulation 20) are published on the website only.

What happens next?

The examination process will include public hearing sessions where those who responded to the consultation on the Proposed Submission Local Plan (Regulation 19) may be invited by the Planning Inspector to participate. Hearing sessions are likely to begin in autumn 2026. The examination website will provide further information.

If you would like to be added to the consultation database to receive email updates on the progress of the local plan, please email a request to localplan@rugby.gov.uk with your name and contact details. Requests will be handled in line with the council’s privacy notice. 
 

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The Proposed Submission Local Plan Consultation (Regulation 19) has now closed

The consultation ran for 6 weeks from Friday 30 January to 5pm on Friday 13 March 2026.

If you would like to be added to the consultation database to receive email updates on the progress of the local plan, please email a request to localplan@rugby.gov.uk with your name and contact details. Requests will be handled in line with the council’s privacy notice.