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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

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

A woman who crashed her car into a shop while more than twice the drink drive limit, killing her partner, has been jailed. Lucy Pegler drank lager, rum, wine and other alcohol before getting behind the wheel of her Fiat 500 to drive her partner Kyle Shimwell and two other friends home following a night

Plans for a water park resort in a derelict Derbyshire quarry have been rejected following hundreds of objections. The plans, from BMET Limited, would have seen Crich Quarry turned into the Amber Rock resort, complete with a water park, 152-room hotel, 128 straw-bale lodges and 210 apartments, cliff-top restaurant, spa, sports complex, zipline, medical centre

A council has agreed to consider concerns about the number of on-street Electric Vehicle charging points in North East Derbyshire after a recent survey and media report claimed the district is among the worst public ‘charging deserts’ in Great Britain. NE Derbyshire District Councillor, Frank-Adlington-Stringer, of the Green Party, called for the district council to

Derbyshire council’s highways chief has expressed her disappointment that the new Government has not yet confirmed if it is sticking with the previous administration’s plan to invest an extra £8.3bn in roads across the country. The Conservative county council’s Cabinet approved at a meeting, on September 18, the receipt of just over £3m of Labour

A council education chief has told how nearly £1.3m of extra funding needed for an on-going costly renovation scheme at a Derbyshire school will not have a direct impact on the authority’s battle to manage a forecast multi-million pound budget deficit. Derbyshire County Council is under-taking a ‘partial-rebuild’ project for Bramley Vale Primary School, on