Latest News

• 23 June 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following documents:
  
  
  • DMBC15 Matter 1 Note on the Plan Period
  • DMBC16 Matter 2 Note on the Apportionment of DtC Employment Land Contributions
  • DMBC17 Matter 4 Note on Flood Zone 3a and 3b
    
    
• 20 June 2025 - Please be aware of updates to the hearing timetable:
  
  
  • Matter 8 Green Belt will now start at 14:00 on Thursday 26th June 2025.
  • Matter 5 Housing has been broken down into 3 sessions. These are:
    • Matter 5 Issue 1 Questions 52 - 69 Tuesday 24th June 2025 at 10:00 am
    • Matter 5 Issue 2 and Issue 3 Questions 70 - 90 Tuesday 24th June 2025 at 14:00 pm
    • Matter 5 Issue 4 Questions 91 - 106 Wednesday 25th June 2025 at 10:00 am

Accordingly, an updated hearing timetable, ID04 v5, has been added to the Examination Documents.

• 9 June 2025 - An updated version of ID04 Stage 1 Draft Hearing Timetable, version 4, has been added to the Examination Documents.
  
  
• 5 June 2025 - An updated version of M5.01a Issue 1 Table Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has been added to the Examination Documents.
  
  An updated version of M5.01c Issue 3 Table Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has been added to the Examination Documents.
  
  
• 5 June 2025 - The Inspector has produced daily agendas for the hearing sessions. These can be found by visiting the Hearing Sessions webpage.
  
  
• 2 June 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following document:
  
  • ID04 Draft Hearing timetable v3

If you have requested to participate in the hearing sessions, please carefully check the draft hearing timetable, to ensure that you are listed correctly for all the matters you wish to attend and the name of your participant is correct. Hearing attendees will only be permitted to speak if they are named on the hearing timetable. If you are not listed correctly or have any queries, please contact the Programme Officer immediately.

• 23 May 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated to include hearing statements submitted to the examination.

  If you have submitted a hearing statement(s), please carefully check that it has been recorded correctly and contact the Programme Officer immediately if there are any issues.

• 15 May 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following documents:

  • ID03 Inspector's Matters, Issues and Questions (MIQs) v3
  • ID04 Draft Hearing timetable v2
  • DMBC13 Addendum to Appendix 5 SD029 - Dudley Local Plan Submission (Regulation 22) - Duty to Cooperate Compliance Statement
  • DMBC14 Duty to Cooperate Letter - Shropshire Council and Dudley Council April 2025 (Redacted)

If you have requested to participate in the hearing sessions, please carefully check the draft hearing timetable, ID04 v2, to ensure that you are listed correctly for all the matters you wish to attend and the name of your participant is correct. Hearing attendees will only be permitted to speak if they are named on the hearing timetable. If you are not listed correctly or have any queries, please contact the Programme Officer immediately.

Please be aware that ID03 Inspector's Matters, Issues and Questions (MIQs) v3 is an updated version of this document.

DMBC13 is an addendum to SD029 - Dudley Local Plan Submission (Reg 22) Duty to Cooperate Compliance Statement 2025, which corrects errors in the original document.

• 12 May 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following documents:
  
  
  • SOCG03 Statement of Common Ground between Greater Birmingham Black Country Housing Market Area (GBBCHMA) May 2025 (Supersedes DC010)
  • SOCG04 BC FEMA SoCG Updated Signed Version - Redacted January 2025 (Supersedes DC011)
    
    
• 9 May 2005 - Please be aware that the Inspector has set a new deadline for the submission of hearing statements. The new deadline is 5pm on Thursday 22 May 2025.

If you intend to submit a hearing statement, please refer to the Inspector’s Guidance Note to ensure your hearing statement(s) are submitted correctly.

Please ensure postal copies are sent as well as electronic copies.

Electronic copies of your hearing statement(s) are required to be sent to Kerry.trueman@dudley.gov.uk

Two paper copies of your hearing statement(s) should be hole punched and stapled, then sent to the Programme Officer at: Dudley Examination, 1 Pendragon House, Bertram Drive, Meols, Wirral, CH47 0LG.

• 9 May 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following document:
  
  
  • PO03 Letter to Representors regarding the Inspector's Hearing Documents

If you have not received a copy of this letter and believe you should have, please contact the Programme Officer immediately.

• 7 May 2025 - Please be aware that an updated version of the following document has been added to the Examination Documents webpage:

  • ID02 Inspector's Stage 1 Guidance Note v3
    
    

• 1 May 2025 - Please be aware that updated versions of the following documents have been added to the Examination Documents webpage:

  • ID02 Inspector's Stage 1 Guidance Note v2
  • ID03 Inspector's Stage 1 Matters, Issues and Questions (MIQs) v2
    
    
• 1 May 2025 - Documents have recently been added to the Examination Documents webpage. For those interested in the examination, this page should be checked regularly for new documents.
  
  
• 29 April 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following documents:
  
  
  • ID02 Inspector's Stage 1 Guidance Note
  • ID03 Inspector's Stage 1 Matters, Issues and Questions (MIQs)
  • ID04 Stage 1 Draft Hearing Timetable V1

The Programme Officer will be writing out shortly to all representors with information on how to take further part in the examination.

• 29 April 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following document:
  
  
  • DMBC04 Regulation 24 Notice of Examination Hearings

• 25 April 2025 - The hearing sessions for the examination of the Dudley Local Plan will begin at 10am on Tuesday 10 June 2025. The hearing venue is:

  Committee Room 1 and 2
  The Council House
  1 Priory Road
  Dudley
  DY1 1HF

  More details will follow regarding the hearing programme and the timings of the hearing sessions.

• 17 April 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following document:
  
  
  • SOCG01 Letter from Telford and Wrekin Council regarding GBBCHMA Statement of Common Ground
    
    

• 10 April 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following documents:

  • DMBC02 HRA Air Quality Clarification Letter 070425
  • DMBC03 Appendix 3 Harm Assessments from the Black Country Green Belt Study (2019)
    
    

• 24 March 2025 - An updated version of HE001 – Heritage Impact Assessment – Dudley Local Plan (2024) has been added to the examination library.

• 13 March 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following document:
  
  
  • ID01 Inspector's Initial Letter 130325
    
    

• 11 March 2025 - The Examination Documents webpage has been updated with the following document:

  • PO01 Programme Officer Introduction letter
    
    
  This letter has been sent to all those that submitted representations to the Regulation 19 consultation on the Dudley Local Plan. If you have not received this letter and believe you should have, please contact the Programme Officer.
  
  
• 5 March 2025 - An updated version of the Urban Capacity Review (UCR) 2025 (TP006) has been added to the examination library
  
  
• 4 March 2025 - The Secretary of State has appointed Inspector Louise Nurser BA (Hons) MA Dip UP MRTPI to hold an independent examination of the Dudley Local Plan 2024-2041
  
  
• 14 February 2025 - Local Plan Examination web page launched