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Heritage and tree conservation
We live in an area with many historical buildings and spaces, linking us with the past. We’re committed to caring for, conserving and enhancing this rich historic environment. This includes protecting and promoting: There are lots of ways y...
The Barons' War - King John
The Pope decreed that King John did not have to adhere to the conditions of Magna Carta. The king took the Pope at his word. The result was war. The barons called upon the French for support and the Tower of London was seized. The country was engulfe...
Business Rates reform 2026 - Business Rates revaluation 2026
At the budget 2024, government announced its intention to introduce two lower multipliers for Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) properties with rateable values (RVs) below £500,000. These will commence from April 2026 and give long-term certaint...
Underpinned by your views - Community Plan
Between May and June 2022, we carried out a major consultation exercise, receiving 4,577 responses from local residents in addition to feedback from parish councils, local businesses and other partners. You can view the feedback from this consultati...
Personal licence
You need a personal licence if you’re responsible for supervising the selling and supply of alcohol. A personal licence is separate from a premises licence, which authorises a premises to be used for the supply of alcohol and other licensable act...
Parking permits and on-street parking
On-street parking permits If you live in a street where an on-street residents' car parking permit scheme is in operation, you'll need to apply to Nottinghamshire County Council for a permit. Email permits.parking@nottscc.gov.uk, call 0115 804 0314 ...
Councillor Casual Vacancy - Oxton Parish Council
Oxton Parish Council has an exciting opportunity for a member of the community to serve as a Parish Councillor. Are you interested in local current affairs? Do you wish to serve and contribute to your community? Could you provide a voice for local r...
FAQs - Yorke Drive Focus
Thank you to the local community who attended the Yorke Drive Resident’s Event in February at the Bridge Community Centre. We appreciate your time and interest in the scheme. At the event, residents discovered more about the upcoming construction...
Solar Energy SPD
The Solar Energy Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) was adopted on 10 June 2025. This SPD provides guidance on the application and interpretation of local and national policy on major stand-alone ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) developments...
Reducing the risk - Listed buildings
Maintenance and occupation are essential in preventing heritage from becoming at risk. Maintenance of assets already at risk can prevent them from further decay. Without maintenance, the cost of repair and consolidation escalates; the challenge for o...
Allocations and Development Management DPD – Issues Paper (July 19 to Aug 19) - Previous stages of plan review
Following the adoption of the Amended Core Strategy the remaining elements of the Plan Review (made up of the policies in the Allocations and Development Management DPD) were progressed along with a new strategy and allocations to meet the future hou...
Local organisations - Caunton Parish Council
Through the hard work, commitment and enthusiasm of those involved, the village benefits from many active and well supported organisations. These include: Caunton Cricket Club Caunton Garden Club The Village Singers Caunton Lawn Tennis Club Caunton...
Car park security - Car parks
We aim to make our car parks safe and secure. Our car park at Tolney Lane has secured car park status and car parks at Appletongate and the Livestock Market in Newark and Church Street in Southwell, have been awarded the Park Mark 'Safer Parking Awar...
Funding Programmes
The Local Regeneration Fund In September 2025, the UK Government announced the Local Regeneration Fund which considered a consolidation of existing local growth capital funds (Levelling Up Fund, Towns Deals and the Path Finder Pilot). Newark and Sher...
Tenant engagement
If you’re a Newark and Sherwood District Council tenant or leaseholder and care about your home, where you live and the housing services that you receive, why not help us to improve what we do and how we do it? We can help you set up safe events in...
Planting a hedge at home - Protecting trees and hedgerows
Most hedges are formed from plants that naturally want to be trees, so face and top trimming is usually needed once or twice a year to keep them tidy. Hedges can last for many years if properly maintained making them reliable and cost effective. Most...
Newark and Sherwood community grant scheme - Community Sustainability
Newark and Sherwood Community Grant Scheme aims to support District based constituted groups, charities and not-for profit organisations with projects or initiatives that align to the Council’s Community Plan objectives. The scheme recognises the ...
Conversion of Traditional Rural Buildings SPD
The Council adopted the Conversion of Traditional Rural Buildings SPD in November 2014. The document sets out what is required from applicants when applying for permission to change their use, and the issues that will be taken into account when co...
Council budgets
Each year the council plans its spending and income to support its aims, priorities and resources. This includes the setting of the and for our services. Our priorities can be found in our . Our aim is to provide excellent value for money and exce...
Sunflower Making Workshops - Get Involved
Free sunflower making workshops will be taking place across the district throughout August to mark Ukrainian Independence Day. Those who take part will be able to take their creations home to display and show their support. There’s also an opportu...
How do we measure our performance? - Community Plan
The Community Plan lays out how we will deliver for our residents, but how do we, and our residents, know that we are achieving this? We do this by reporting every quarter (every 3 months) on our performance against the Community Plan. We examine dat...
DBS check - Taxi licensing
All applicants are required to complete, and pay the appropriate fee, for an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (previously CRB) on first application. Applicants are also required to join the DBS update service to enable us to carry out an...
Your rights - Your new home
you can live in your home without interference from us for the length of your tenancy as long as you (and your friends, relatives and any other person living in or visiting your home) follow the conditions of your Tenancy Agreement an exception to t...
Community Plan
Our Community Plan 2023 - 2027 (PDF File, 17,357kb) sets out our values, purpose and objectives for four years. It details what we intend to achieve in that period to improve residents’ quality of life and enable those who live, work and invest in ...
Crafts, artists and makers - Arts directory
Clipstone Welfare Craft Group A craft group meets at Clipstone Welfare every Thursday morning between 10am and 12pm and is looking for more people to join. The group is free to attend and refreshments are provided. Anyone who is interested in worki...
Maintenance of your oil tank - Heating oil storage
There’s a number of steps you can take to help avoid your tank leaking, including: regularly checking the condition of your tank - if it is a metal tank, ensure it is painted often to avoid the metal corroding. Be aware of black staining on tank s...
Tenant Annual Report
We are pleased to present our Tenant Annual Report 2024-25 (PDF File, 27,440kb) This report provides an overview of the housing services we deliver at Newark and Sherwood District Council. We hope it gives you an honest assessment of both what we do...
Tenant Engagement Structure - Tenant engagement
View our Tenant Engagement Structure (PDF File, 251kb) to see what groups, boards and committees review our housing service. Tenant Engagement Board The Tenant Engagement Board (TEB) is a group of tenants who work closely with the council to make s...
Thank you to our funders
The project has received funding from the Government’s Towns Fund initiative, with £3million to deliver the Castle Gatehouse project. A further £1.4million grant has been awarded from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. We would like to thank b...
How we use the information - Revenues and Benefits Privacy Notice
We use the information that you have given us for: creating and maintaining a Council Tax or Business Rates account, such as applying discounts, disregards, reliefs and exemptions recovering outstanding Council Tax or Business Rates debts processing...
Health and safety advice for employees
Our Environmental Health team is committed to helping businesses throughout Newark and Sherwood to meet their legal obligations and ensure health and safety is properly managed. Our officers give advice to businesses on the simplest and most cost eff...
How is your personal data safeguarded? - Councillor Privacy Notice
Reasonable security measures are taken to ensure that personal information within my control is protected from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of or access to personal data, misuse, or theft. As the Counc...
Immigration property inspection
Anyone making an application to the UK Border agency for entry clearance into the UK, may be asked to obtain an independent assessment of the accommodation where they propose to live. A property inspection, carried out by the Council, ensures that a ...
Taking action on noise - Noise nuisances
Initially we recommend that you try to resolve the problem by speaking to the noise-maker yourself. Consider approaching them to explain politely that you are being troubled by their noise. Often people are unaware that they are causing a problem and...
Gladstone House, Newark - Housing with care
Gladstone House is an extra care development for over 65's just off Bowbridge Road in Newark. Built to meet the needs of our community, it’s a modern facility, designed specifically to allow people to live life to the full, independently and safely...
Smoking ban for Newark and Sherwood play areas - Smoking enforcement
A voluntary smoking ban has been introduced in play areas throughout Newark and Sherwood in a bid to improve healthy living. Twenty sites are covered under the initiative which is primarily directed at parents, but also aims to cut the number of youn...
Red Cross Emergency App - Emergencies
You can download the Red Cross Emergency App onto a smart phone. This award-winning, free mobile app delivers real-time alerts, severe weather warnings and practical advice in an emergency. The app sends you alerts if an emergency is about to affect...
Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeper Strategy 2024 – 2029 - Losing your home
Our vision for Newark and Sherwood is to create an environment where people lead safe and healthy lifestyles, ensuring suitable housing for all. At the heart of this is our aim to break the cycle of homelessness by ensuring the causes are identified ...
Castle House - Room hire
Located in the centre of Newark, (NG24 1BY) is easily accessible by public transport, with disabled access and pay and display parking available outside of the building. Room layouts can be tailored to suit each booking, and the use of a kitchenette,...
Who needs to register? - Registering your food business
You need to register if you’re involved in preparing, cooking, storing, handling, distributing, supplying or selling food. Registration applies to food business including: restaurants, cafes and take-aways catering businesses run from home, mobile...
About the Local Plan - Newark and Sherwood Local Plan
Every local planning authority must have an up-to-date Local Plan that covers a period of at least 15 years, that sets out what can be built and where building should take place. Local Plans hold important policies to support environmental protection...
Smokefree Nottinghamshire
Nottingham City Council, Nottinghamshire County Council and its partners have a long term vision to inspire a smokefree generation. A wide range of partners across the city and county are working together to create smokefree zones at events, especial...
What we do in emergencies - Emergencies
We plan for emergencies as one of the key partners in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Local Resilience Forum (LRF). The LRF is led by Nottinghamshire Police, and brings together local agencies to plan and respond to emergencies in a co-ordinated ...
Flooding risk and responsibilities - Flood FAQs
When is flooding likely? Flooding is usually a consequence of a long period of rain or heavy downpours. It can be made worse by many variables including neglected culverts, saturated ground and blocked drainage systems. It’s hard to predict when...
Accident reporting
Accidents cost businesses money and damage reputation. Each year many employees are killed or injured at work, and over 40 million working days are lost annually to work-related injuries and ill health throughout the UK. If you run a business, it’s...
Notts Help Yourself
Notts Help Yourself enables you to search for information on local services, benefits and activities in one place. You can filter the information using a range of options including the type of service you're interested in, the location of that servi...
Newark Town Centre Design Code Supplementary Planning Document - Newark Town Centre Design Code
The Newark Town Centre Design Code aims to guide sustainable development within Newark's Conservation Area. With the preservation and enhancement of Newark’s rich historic identity being aided, and delivery of high-quality new developments in Newar...
Volunteer at the PDSA Charity Shop, Newark - Volunteering opportunities
The PDSA's charity shops play a huge role in raising the funds needed to care for the animals that arrive across their 48 pet hospitals each day. Charity shop volunteers take part in a wide range of activities that support the day-to-day running of t...
Enough campaign - Domestic Abuse campaigns
The campaign has been launched by the government to highlight different forms of violence against women and girls and the simple acts that anyone can take to challenge perpetrators of abuse. Forms of abuse against women and girls represented include...
Newark and Sherwood District Councils position on LGR - Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)
Currently there are three options being explored for what LGR could look like in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. On Friday 28 November, the District Council submitted its joint proposal with its preferred option. Known as Option 1e, this proposal, ...