Plans for several grass-walled holiday cabins and a farm shop in the Derbyshire countryside have been submitted. The scheme, submitted by Jason Oakley, would see five shepherd’s huts and a farm shop built on land at Old Queen Farm in Cockshead Lane, Snelston – a few miles south of Ashbourne. Derbyshire Dales District Council will
“The public have not asked me to deliver cheap policing” says Derbyshire’s police and crime commissioner as she put forward a budget containing a maximum council tax increase. Angelique Foster, Derbyshire’s police and crime commissioner, launched the 2024 budget at a council meeting this week, including a tax increase of 4.88 per cent. This equates
A Liberal Democrat Councillor has challenged cash-strapped Labour-led Chesterfield Borough Council’s claims that the local authority has been left to feel like the poor Charles Dickens’ character Oliver Twist after the announcement of a ‘tiny’ Government funding handout. The Conservative Government has agreed to £600m of additional funding for struggling local authorities in England but