Day: January 27, 2025

A Derbyshire council is set to spend £7.5m buying and converting five houses into children’s homes as they grapple with a 125-child waiting list and costs of £50 million a year for private facilities. Derbyshire County Council is looking to buy the houses in a bid to curb the pressure that private children’s home placements

Derbyshire council has announced a major road in the county is to be closed at various points for the felling of trees suffering from ash dieback disease which poses a safety risk for motorists and is creating an additional budgetary pressure, according to the authority’s finance chief. The A5012 Via Gellia road between Cromford and

A high-profile councillor has explained how a Derbyshire parish council has ended-up facing possible bankruptcy after it struggled to keep a leisure centre scheme afloat during the Covid-19 crisis which saw a contractor go bust and costs triple. Elmton-with-Creswell Parish Council has recently shared an expert Locum’s damning interim report on its website into the