Councillors have defended “putting their money where their mouth is” over a failed £180,000 Derbyshire planning appeal. A Derbyshire Dales District Council meeting last week saw councillors discuss the £181,619 cost of fighting an appeal for 87 homes at Leys Farm, off Wyaston Road, in Ashbourne. Government planning inspector Hayley Butcher allowed the plans at
The new East Midlands mayoral authority has secured just over £16.8m of Government funding to help deliver 1,479 stalled housing schemes on previously developed land known as brownfield sites across the region. Councillors at the East Midlands Combined County Authority’s inaugural Investment Committee meeting on September 30, at Chesterfield Town Hall, on Rose Hill, welcomed
12-year-old Anya Olweny from Matlock in Derbyshire has been named as a winner in the prestigious national 2024 WellChild Awards, in association with GSK, having been nominated by her mother Gemma Olweny. She received her award in London on 30th September at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London and spent time with WellChild Patron, Prince