Examination Hearing Sessions

Stage 1 Hearing Sessions

The first stage Hearings of the Examination of the Dacorum Local Plan have been arranged and will take place during w/c 15 September 2025.

The Stage 1 hearings will be held in-person in the Council Offices, The Forum, Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead HP1 1DN and will open at 10.00 am on Tuesday 16th September 2025.

Information on further Stages of the Hearings will be posted here when the dates and matters for discussion have been confirmed.

All the hearing sessions will be live streamed. A link will be posted on this page when the Hearings are taking place.

Follow this link to the Hearing Statements page, to view the Council's and other representors' responses to the Inspectors' Matters, Issues and Questions - Stage 1.

Stage 1 Hearing Sessions Documents

Programme & Participants V.3. (11 September 2025)

DBC/ED25 Inspectors' Draft Hearing Programme Version 1 - Stage 1
DBC/ED26 Inspectors' Examination Guidance Notes - Stage 1
DBC/ED27 Inspectors' Matters, Issues and Questions - Stage 1

Stage 2 Hearing Sessions

The Stage 2 hearing sessions of the Dacorum Local Plan examination will be a standalone stage to consider strategic issues relating to the Hemel Garden Communities proposals.

Joint in-person hearings will be held with St Albans City and District Council on Tuesday 21 October 2025 and will be held at St Albans City and District Council offices.

Stage 2 Hearing sessions Documents

DBC/ED28 Inspectors' Draft Hearings Programme - Stage 2
DBC/ED29 Inspectors’ Examination Guidance Notes - Stage 2
DBC/ED30 Inspectors’ Matters, Issues and Questions - Stage 2

Live Stream Update

As the hearing sessions are in person sessions there is no requirement to live stream the hearings. The Council kindly offered to include a live stream for the hearings, but unfortunately there were some technical difficulties yesterday and on occasion it was not possible to hear all the discussions. The hearings were paused yesterday to try to resolve the issues, but if the technical difficulties cannot be fixed this morning, there will not be any further pauses in the hearings to try to resolve these issues. If you wish to be sure of hearing the discussions please come to the Council offices where you will be able to listen to the discussions in person.

Live Stream and Webcast

All the hearings will be live streamed as a Microsoft Teams 'Town Hall'. When the hearings are taking place, anyone wishing to listen to the discussion will be able to access the live stream via the links below. It will not be necessary to log in, as the link will take you straight to the hearing session.

When the morning's hearing session has concluded, you will need to click onto the afternoon's hearing session manually.