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
North East Derbyshire District Council’s Leader has stressed the authority will continue with a cooperative approach with regional leaders and Parliamentary representatives to outline the district’s regeneration priorities after the council has been asked to urge Government not to give up on the area’s community schemes. Labour Council Leader, Cllr Nigel Barker, rejected opposition Conservative
‘CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated in a quote in the fourth paragraph the phrase ‘….You have no moral authority.’ but this should have read ‘…with no moral authority.’ INCORRECT VERSION – But Clowne Garden Village Action Group chairperson Dominic Webb told the committee: “You have failed, as a council, the parishes
Staveley Town Council has agreed to fund new footpath signs to be put up in honour of murder victim Gracie Spinks after a councillor’s long campaign for a permanent tribute in the town. Town Cllr Mick Bagshaw has been campaigning for the tribute for many months since Gracie Spinks was stabbed to death when she