New housing in Newark and Sherwood District Council
We read Newark and Sherwood District Council's planning register every day. We hold 16,550 of its planning applications going back to 2016, and 122 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 139% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 139% (2025)
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 16,550
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 104 | 59 | 8 |
| 2025 | 83 | 58 | 15 |
| 2024 | 55 | 43 | 9 |
| 2023 | 86 | 47 | 31 |
| 2022 | 118 | 68 | 39 |
| 2021 | 114 | 68 | 40 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 550 | Land Within Former Rufford Colliery Rufford Colliery Lane Rainworth Outline planning permission for up to 550 dwellings and a multi-use community hub and warden's building with all matters reserved except access. 25/02138/OUTM | Awaiting decision | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 430 | Land At Fernwood South Claypole Lane Fernwood Reserved matters application relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for 430 dwellings with associated wider infrastructure including SUDs, public open space (inc. play area), sports pitches with changing… 24/01672/RMAM | Approved | 30 Sept 2024 |
| 390 | Land Off Great North Road Fernwood Proposed development of 390 dwellings including associated access, landscaping and infrastructure 25/02057/FULM | Awaiting decision | 9 Dec 2025 |
| 190 | Phase 6a/7 Thoresby Vale Development Former Thoresby Colliery Ollerton Road Edwinstowe Outline application for the erection of up to 190 dwellings, including public open space, landscaping, drainage and associated infrastructure with all matters reserved except access 24/00289/OUTM | Approved | 12 Feb 2024 |
| 164 | Land At Fernwood Meadows South Great North Road Fernwood Application for approval of reserved matters for the construction of 164 dwellings with associated public open space, highways and drainage infrastructure (pursuant to outline planning permission 17/01266/OUTM)… 25/00857/RMAM | Withdrawn | 13 Jun 2025 |
| 40 | Land Rear Of The Paddock Collingham Outline application for up to 40 dwellings with associated landscaping, open space, drainage and associated works; all matters reserved except access from Dykes End. 25/01174/OUTM | Refused | 11 Jul 2025 |
| 31 | Krefeld Eakring Road Wellow NG22 0ED Outline application for up to 31 Dwellings (All Matters Reserved apart from access) 25/02120/OUTM | Awaiting decision | 19 Dec 2025 |
| 28 | Bishops Court Tuxford Road Boughton NG22 9HY Erection of 28 dwellings with associated access, parking, landscaping and drainage. 25/00607/FULM | Approved | 7 Apr 2025 |
| 8 | Land Off Enfield Court Harby Nottinghamshire Application for permission in principle for a residential development of upto 8 dwellings 25/01701/PIP | Approved | 6 Oct 2025 |
| 8 | Queens Head Chambers Queens Head Court Newark On Trent Conversion of vacant offices to 8 flats 23/02116/FUL | Approved | 30 Nov 2023 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Balderton
- Bilsthorpe
- Bleasby
- Blidworth
- Caunton
- Coddington
- Collingham (Newark and Sherwood)
- Cromwell
- Eakring
- Edingley
- Edwinstowe
- Egmanton
- Elston
- Epperstone
- Farndon (Newark and Sherwood)
- Farnsfield
- Fernwood
- Fiskerton (Newark and Sherwood)
- Gunthorpe
- Halam
- Kirklington
- Kirton (Newark and Sherwood)
- Laxton
- Lowdham
- Newark-on-Trent
- New Ollerton and Ollerton
- North Muskham
- Norwell
- Oxton
- Rainworth
- Rolleston
- Rufford (Newark and Sherwood)
- South Clifton
- Southwell (Newark and Sherwood)
- Staythorpe
- Sutton on Trent
- Syerston
- Thurgarton
- Upton (Newark and Sherwood)
- Walesby
- Wellow (Newark and Sherwood)
- White Post
- Winthorpe
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: Newark and Sherwood District Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.