Day: March 11, 2024

Derbyshire County Council’s environment chief has welcomed a £100,000 Government funding boost to help with the authority’s backlog of planning applications. Cllr Carolyn Renwick, Cabinet member for Infrastructure and Environment, said she was delighted with the council’s successful bid for the grant funding from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Planning Skills Delivery Funding

Derbyshire County Council is recommending plans for a new political map with 64 single-member electoral divisions each represented by one councillor which could see the current divisions and councillors in Chesterfield reduced by one and the number of South Derbyshire divisions and councillors increased by one. The Conservative-led council agreed its related recommendations as part