Derbyshire council’s Cabinet is due to consider proposals to possibly end over £1m of funding for 50 community and voluntary groups as part of the authority’s ongoing saving plans. The cash-strapped Conservative-controlled county council has completed two 12-week public consultations to gather views as it considers the future of discretionary grant funding relating to two […]
Residents have lost their campaign to stop amended plans for a new nursing care home which they believe will lead to increased traffic and pose safety and noise problems in their neighbourhood. Chesterfield Borough Council’s planning committee approved Cairnwell Developments’ amended planning application at a meeting on October 14 for the specialist nursing care home
Campaigners joined a union-organised rally calling for financially-stretched Derbyshire council to abandon adult social care saving plans and proposed cutbacks including the possible closure of eight day centres and up to 11 care homes for the elderly. The Derbyshire UNISON rally saw protesters meet at Rykneld Square, in Chesterfield town centre, on Thursday, October 17,
Derbyshire council’s leader has expressed disappointment that other local authorities in the region have not formally expressed concerns over the potential impact of National Grid’s proposed 60km long corridor of electricity pylons across the county. Cllr Barry Lewis told a recent county council meeting that Conservative-led Derbyshire County Council has submitted an objection to National
A Derbyshire charity providing vital transport to hospitals, care homes and isolated rural villages for the disabled and elderly is set to cease trading after nearly 30 years, putting more than 60 jobs at risk. Derbyshire Community Transport, registered in 1996, operates a number of key local bus services on behalf of Derbyshire County Council,
Many of the trees are planted by large organisations but the general public’s enthusiasm for the scheme shines through by the fact that over 20,000 of them have been planted by Derbyshire residents to help green their local spaces. They have recorded their trees on the online map and often added the reason for their
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A multi-million pound regeneration project is set to begin in Staveley in November. Chesterfield Borough Council’s Staveley 21 project, funded through the Staveley Town Deal, includes the construction of a new landmark building in the town centre, improvements to the market square and rejuvenation of the high street. Together the works will help support local
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A man who went on the run with his teenage son after stabbing his wife multiple times and locking her in the family home has been jailed. The attack by Mark Taylor was so severe that the knife he was using snapped. But the 57-year-old carried on the assault on his partner after grabbing a
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An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Forestry England is the applicant and developer as per a misleading explanation provided in Forestry England’s own web link provided below for reference but on making further enquiries it has since been established that the applicant is in fact Forest Holidays and Forestry England is the
A decision to shelve plans to reopen two Derbyshire railway lines has been dubbed “shortsighted”, “disappointing” and “extremely wrong” by a leading councillor. In a Derbyshire County Council meeting, Cllr Tony King, cabinet member for clean growth and regeneration, hit out at the cost-cutting decision from central Government to cancel plans to reopen the Ivanhoe
