Several significant long-awaited housing developments could be dropped from a Derbyshire council’s future blueprint for the area. Derbyshire Dales District Council is currently drawing together a new Local Plan to outline where housing could be built up until 2040. There is an identified need for between 1,378 and 1,888 more homes to be built in […]
A Derbyshire road which was closed for two years after significant landslip damage needs to be repaired again. Derbyshire County Council has discovered signs of further movement on Lea Road, between Cromford and Crich. This involves cracks which run for several metres on a route which was fully repaired and relaid 16 months ago. As
A man has been charged and one other man has been arrested in connection with a burglary in Brassington in the Derbyshire Dales. James Chesterton, of East Avenue, Rawmarsh, Rotherham appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates Court on Thursday 11 April and was remanded into prison custody. The 31-year-old is next due to appear at Derby
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A former police officer has today been jailed, after the force appealed his suspended sentence for misconduct in a public office. Matthew Longmate, 48, formerly of Derbyshire Constabulary, had been given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for a year, after he was found guilty of a single count of misconduct in a public office in
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The cricket season is underway and North Derbyshire Radio’s Senior Sports Editor Matthew Rhodes has spoken to Derbyshire pace bowler Sam Connors in an EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. Listen to the interview below…..
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Derbyshire County Council has extended a public consultation and welcomed further views on its proposals to remodel two care centre services for disabled children to save over one-and-a-half million pounds over two years. The Conservative-led council which has already agreed to progress with a number of other saving plans to balance a forecast budget shortfall
Derbyshire council has agreed to launch a public consultation into proposals that could see a number of Day Opportunity and Short Break support services discontinued for adults with learning disabilities, as the authority continues to face financial challenges. During a meeting on April 11, at County Hall, in Matlock, the Conservative-controlled county council’s Cabinet approved
The new owners of a Derbyshire Dales pub want to build several “luxury” holiday lodges in its grounds, along with an extended car park, following two failed expansion plans. Chris and Andrea Harvey, through Henfox Ltd, have applied to build four holiday lodges in the grounds of the Knockerdown Inn, off the B5035, close to
Bolsover District Council planners have provisionally given the go-ahead for a residential development in Derbyshire which will unusually not need to make additional financial contributions to the area’s infrastructure – because the scheme involves purely ‘affordable’ properties and will help meet the crucial need for housing. The council’s planning committee approved Dukeries Homes’ planning application
A man has been jailed after a burglary in Whitwell and six other people have been arrested after burglaries and vehicle thefts across Derbyshire. Neil Mann was disturbed by a neighbour as he helped himself to items from a home in Middlegate Field Drive, at around 4pm on 16 February. A young woman heard footsteps
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