Derbyshire County Council is determined to maintain and improve its fabulous natural countryside and rural areas after launching a nature recovery strategy as the National Parks Societies call for political parties to commit to revitalising England’s protected landscapes. More than 100 delegates including local farming, environmental, wildlife and biodiversity experts met at the first Derbyshire
A woman has died following a serious collision on the A515 outside of Buxton in the early hours of this morning, Thursday 8 February. Police were called just after 6am to reports of a crash involving a car and a lorry at Brierlow Bar. Emergency services attended, and the driver of the car was found
Detectives investigating a serious assault in Creswell are making a further appeal for information as enquiries continue. A 49-year-old man suffered serious head injuries after he was assaulted on Elmton Road, near to Ours Bar, at around 1.30am on Saturday 27 January. He remains in a critical condition in hospital. Three men, aged 20, 25
Two-thirds of the current patients in Derbyshire’s mental health hospital beds have such significant health requirements they are legally detained there under the law. A report from Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust details that pressure on mental health beds and staff that oversee them has heightened. This includes more patients needing assistance and that those
High Peak Borough Council has proposed setting its share of the council tax rate increase at 2.99per cent and increasing its housing rent by 7.7per cent for the 2024-25 financial year as part of its yearly budget and future financial plans to address continued uncertainty over Government funding, inflation, interest rates and costs. The Labour-controlled
Financially-stretched Chesterfield Borough Council has agreed to scrap its free roadside garden waste collection service and introduce new charges as part of its on-going efforts to balance its forecast 2024-25 budget deficit of £4m. The Labour-led local authority announced its latest plans at a Joint Cabinet, Employment and General Committee meeting on Monday, February 5,
Chesterfield-based environmentalists and Derbyshire Pensioners Action Group have joined forces to raise concerns about the county council-managed Derbyshire Pension Fund’s climate change investment strategy with fossils fuels and the accessibility of the fund’s recent public consultation. Derbyshire County Council released a seven-week online consultation from December 13 to January 31 but it has been met
A Derbyshire council’s plan to build four homes on a car park is set to be approved. The scheme, from Amber Valley Borough Council, would see four three-bedroom flat-pack homes built on a car park on the corner of Fletcher Street and Lower Gladstone Street in Heanor. Borough council planning officials have recommended that the
MP Mark Fletcher says opposition to the proposed massive Clowne Garden Village housing development including hundreds of planning objections, a petition and his own survey cannot be ignored by Bolsover District Council. The Labour-led local authority is considering Waystone Ltd’s planning application for the Clowne Garden Village housing scheme for 1,800 properties with 24 hectares
Plans to demolish a Derbyshire pub on a busy four-way junction and replace it with a Farmfoods supermarket are set for approval. The plans, submitted by Farmfoods, would see the former The French Horn pub on the Market Place, Nottingham Road and Heanor Road junction in Codnor bulldozed to make way for the new store.