diff --git a/src/lib/validation/form/no-required-notes.js b/src/lib/validation/form/no-required-notes.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..56f515409
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/validation/form/no-required-notes.js
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+const { getBindNodes } = require('../../forms-utils');
+
+module.exports = {
+  requiresInstance: false,
+  skipFurtherValidation: false,
+  execute: async({ xformPath, xmlDoc }) => {
+    const errors = [];
+
+    const requiredNotes = getBindNodes(xmlDoc)
+      .filter(bind => bind.getAttribute('readonly') === 'true()') // Notes will not be conditionally readonly
+      .filter(bind => {
+        const required = bind.getAttribute('required');
+        return required && required !== 'false()';
+      })
+      .filter(bind => bind.getAttribute('type') === 'string')
+      .filter(bind => !bind.getAttribute('calculate'))
+      .map(bind => bind.getAttribute('nodeset'));
+    if(requiredNotes.length) {
+      errors.push(`Form at ${xformPath} contains the following note fields with 'required' expressions: [${requiredNotes.join(', ')}]`);
+    }
+    return { errors, warnings: [] };
+  }
+};
diff --git a/test/lib/validate-forms.spec.js b/test/lib/validate-forms.spec.js
index 959249e3d..a2a727a43 100644
--- a/test/lib/validate-forms.spec.js
+++ b/test/lib/validate-forms.spec.js
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ describe('validate-forms', () => {
     expect(checkXPathsExist.requiresInstance).to.equal(false);
     expect(checkXPathsExist.skipFurtherValidation).to.equal(false);
 
+    const noRequiredNotes = validations.shift();
+    expect(noRequiredNotes.name).to.equal('no-required-notes.js');
+    expect(noRequiredNotes.requiresInstance).to.equal(false);
+    expect(noRequiredNotes.skipFurtherValidation).to.equal(false);
+
     expect(validations).to.be.empty;
   });
 
diff --git a/test/lib/validation/form/no-required-notes.spec.js b/test/lib/validation/form/no-required-notes.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a412952e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/lib/validation/form/no-required-notes.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+const { expect } = require('chai');
+const { DOMParser } = require('@xmldom/xmldom');
+const noRequiredNotes = require('../../../../src/lib/validation/form/no-required-notes');
+
+const domParser = new DOMParser();
+
+const getXml = (bindData = '') => `
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<h:html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events" xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:jr="http://openrosa.org/javarosa" xmlns:orx="http://openrosa.org/xforms/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
+  <h:head>
+    <h:title>Test</h:title>
+    <model>
+      <instance>
+        <data id="ABC" version="2015-06-05">
+          <name>Harambe</name>
+          <age/>
+          <address>
+            <street-nbr/>
+          </address>
+          <summary>
+            <summary_title>Summary</summary_title>
+            <details/>
+          </summary>
+        </data>
+      </instance>
+      <instance id="contact-summary"/>
+      ${bindData}
+      <meta>
+        <instanceID/>
+      </meta>
+    </model>
+  </h:head>
+  <h:body>
+    <input ref="/data/name">
+      <label>What is the name?</label>
+    </input>
+    <input ref="/data/age">
+      <label>What is the age?</label>
+    </input>
+  </h:body>
+</h:html>`;
+
+const createBindData = fields =>
+  fields
+    .map(({ name, type, calculate, readonly, required }) => {
+      const calc = calculate ? `calculate="${calculate}"` : '';
+      const read = readonly ? `readonly="${readonly}"` : '';
+      const req = required ? `required="${required}"` : '';
+      return `<bind nodeset="${name}" type="${type}" ${calc} ${read} ${req}/>`;
+    })
+    .join('');
+
+const getXmlDoc = (fields, instance) => domParser.parseFromString(getXml(createBindData(fields), instance));
+const xformPath = '/my/form/path/form.xml';
+
+const assertEmpty = (output) => {
+  expect(output.warnings).is.empty;
+  expect(output.errors, output.errors).is.empty;
+};
+
+const getExpectedErrorMsg = requiredNotes => `Form at ${xformPath} contains the following note fields with 'required' expressions: [${requiredNotes.join(', ')}]`;
+
+describe('no-required-notes', () => {
+  it('resolves OK for form with no notes', () => {
+    return noRequiredNotes.execute({ xformPath, xmlDoc: getXmlDoc([]) })
+      .then(output => assertEmpty(output));
+  });
+
+  it('resolves OK for note that is not required', () => {
+    const fields = [{
+      name: '/data/name',
+      type: 'string',
+      readonly: 'true()',
+      required: 'false()'
+    },{
+      name: '/data/address/street-nbr',
+      type: 'string',
+      readonly: 'true()'
+    }];
+    return noRequiredNotes.execute({ xformPath, xmlDoc: getXmlDoc(fields) })
+      .then(output => assertEmpty(output));
+  });
+
+  it('resolves OK for calculate that is required', () => {
+    const fields = [{
+      name: '/data/name',
+      type: 'string',
+      calculate: 'concat("Hello", "World")',
+      readonly: 'true()',
+      required: 'true()'
+    }];
+    return noRequiredNotes.execute({ xformPath, xmlDoc: getXmlDoc(fields) })
+      .then(output => assertEmpty(output));
+  });
+
+  it('resolves OK for string question that is not readonly', () => {
+    const fields = [{
+      name: '/data/name',
+      type: 'string',
+      readonly: 'false()',
+      required: 'true()'
+    },{
+      name: '/data/address/street-nbr',
+      type: 'string',
+      readonly: 'false()'
+    }];
+    return noRequiredNotes.execute({ xformPath, xmlDoc: getXmlDoc(fields) })
+      .then(output => assertEmpty(output));
+  });
+
+  it('resolves OK for non-string question', () => {
+    const fields = [{
+      name: '/data/age',
+      type: 'int',
+      readonly: 'true()',
+      required: 'true()'
+    }];
+    return noRequiredNotes.execute({ xformPath, xmlDoc: getXmlDoc(fields) })
+      .then(output => assertEmpty(output));
+  });
+
+  it('returns errors for required notes', () => {
+    const fields = [{
+      name: '/data/name',
+      type: 'string',
+      readonly: 'true()',
+      required: 'true()'
+    },{
+      name: '/data/address/street-nbr',
+      type: 'string',
+      readonly: 'true()',
+      calculate: '',
+      required: '/data/age > 5'
+    }];
+    return noRequiredNotes.execute({ xformPath, xmlDoc: getXmlDoc(fields) })
+      .then(output => {
+        expect(output.warnings).is.empty;
+        expect(output.errors).to.deep.equal([getExpectedErrorMsg(fields.map(f => f.name))]);
+      });
+  });
+});