Bolsover District Council has set its share of the council tax rate increase at 2.99per cent and is increasing its housing rent by 7.7per cent for the 2024-25 financial year as part of its extensive, on-going financial budget plan. The Labour-led council considered the Mid Term Financial Plan for 2023-24 until 2027-28 at a council
Following months of considering hard-hitting saving proposals, cash-strapped Derbyshire County Council is hoping to have its comprehensive budget plan for the 2024-25 financial year rubber-stamped at a Valentine’s Day meeting after efforts to balance a £39.5m estimated shortfall and to avoid bankruptcy. The Conservative led council’s cabinet noted and approved a number of matters at
A number of key decisions about Chesterfield Borough Council services are due to be considered on Monday 5 February, as the authority seeks to address the impact of significant and long-term funding shortfalls which are affecting local government as a whole. Like local authorities across the country, the council is facing unprecedented challenges in balancing
Plans for several grass-walled holiday cabins and a farm shop in the Derbyshire countryside have been submitted. The scheme, submitted by Jason Oakley, would see five shepherd’s huts and a farm shop built on land at Old Queen Farm in Cockshead Lane, Snelston – a few miles south of Ashbourne. Derbyshire Dales District Council will
“The public have not asked me to deliver cheap policing” says Derbyshire’s police and crime commissioner as she put forward a budget containing a maximum council tax increase. Angelique Foster, Derbyshire’s police and crime commissioner, launched the 2024 budget at a council meeting this week, including a tax increase of 4.88 per cent. This equates
A Liberal Democrat Councillor has challenged cash-strapped Labour-led Chesterfield Borough Council’s claims that the local authority has been left to feel like the poor Charles Dickens’ character Oliver Twist after the announcement of a ‘tiny’ Government funding handout. The Conservative Government has agreed to £600m of additional funding for struggling local authorities in England but
Concerned cash-strapped Chesterfield councillors are working with four key public advice agencies to reduce the possible impact of the authority’s proposed phasing-out of over £200,000 of annual funding. Labour-led Chesterfield Borough Council’s Scrutiny Select Committee on Economic Growth and Communities met on January 18 to discuss the proposed withdrawal of funding as a saving proposal
A housing developer has given further assurances after it has been linked to a second Derbyshire scheme site to have attracted concerns about sewage and drainage capacity as plans are underway to build a £20.35m residential development above a flood-prone town. Homes by Honey’s planning application for 75 houses off Chesterfield Road and Quarry Lane,
Work to turn a Derbyshire council’s sprawling historic headquarters into a hotel and build a new base could cost more than £100 million. Derbyshire County Council aims to move out of its historic Matlock headquarters in a former spa and move into a new eco, smaller building within the Bank Road grounds. Reports published by
A Derbyshire council is drawing up plans to bring more than 800 long-term empty homes back into use – but this will not include an extra tax hike. Amber Valley is host to 842 long-term empty homes which have been vacant for more than six months. Meanwhile, there are a further 735 properties unoccupied for