Derbyshire council’s Highways team is joining forces with police to consider reducing speed limits between Clowne and Pleasley after campaigners have been calling for traffic-calming measures along a road that has been the scene of a series of collisions. Bolsover District Cllr Donna Hales and residents at the Oxcroft estate have raised concerns with Derbyshire
Officers have made communities safer with more than 9,000 hours of extra patrols across Derbyshire in the last year. Officers on hotspot patrols have prevented drug deals, found vulnerable missing people, and addressed nuisance behaviour targeting local businesses, conducting 111 arrests and speaking to more than 30,000 people. This addresses the concerns of our local
East Midlands’ politicians are calling for government funding to help bring forward the Chesterfield Staveley Regeneration Route (CSRR), to ensure a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revitalise several former north Derbyshire mining communities is not missed. The proposed 6km road would unlock the development of the former Staveley Works site for new housing, commercial units and community