Category: Local News

A Derbyshire climate activist is no longer going to be pursued to remove solar panels they unlawfully installed after a six-year dispute that has included the threat of prison time. After six years of increasingly serious disputes, Derbyshire Dales District Council has dropped its enforcement action against Mary Smail, who unlawfully installed solar panels on

A new exhibition and series of events aims to help visitors understand what life was like during the medieval period. Part of Chesterfield Borough Council’s Museum on the Move project, the free Medieval Times exhibition will include lots of hands-on family friendly activities and there will be a series of special events to help make

A planned two-year Traveller site is set to be approved in Peak District village car park, despite nearly 100 objections from residents, a charity and the county council. The plans, from Derbyshire Dales District Council, would see the Old Station Close car park in Rowsley turned into a temporary plot for a specific homeless Traveller

A top board director has claimed a Derbyshire council’s decision to publicly release a critical review concerning the authority’s arrangements with its wholly-owned development company without ‘full context’ and an ‘action plan’ could have ‘serious catastrophic, reputational and financial consequences’. Bolsover District Council’s relationship with its wholly-owned Dragonfly development companies has been criticised following a

Barbecues and campfires have been banned in part of the Peak District in a bid to stop wildfires breaking out. Fire crews in the High Peak, Derbyshire, have been called to a number of fires in the national park so far this year, including a major incident in Goyt Valley which shut roads and took

Community and voluntary organisations, and town and parish councils, are being invited to apply for funding to help pay for schemes aimed at attracting visitors to towns and villages across the High Peak. High Peak Borough Council has now opened the third round of applications for its Towns and Villages Regeneration Fund. The Council has

Several former Derbyshire council offices could be demolished to make way for more than 70 apartments. Lancashire firm Sterling Property Limited has submitted plans to demolish a large number of properties on the former Derbyshire County Council Chatsworth Hall office complex off Wellington Street and Chesterfield Road in Matlock. Those buildings would be replaced with

A councillor has called for vehicle weight restrictions to further address residents’ traffic safety concerns by reducing the number of lorries moving along a worrying junction near Staveley which has already been the subject of a campaign for traffic lights. Staveley Town Cllr Paul Mann believes one of the main problem at the Inkersall Road

Hotspot policing and Immediate Justice will continue to make a difference to communities by addressing and preventing anti-social behaviour (ASB). Both the schemes have now been extended, thanks to funding from the Home Office and force funds. Chief Constable Rachel Swann recently joined a hotspot patrol and shared an update about the future of the

Long-awaited plans for the much-needed Chesterfield-to-Staveley Regeneration Route bypass scheme and its surrounding developments are still awaiting a Government decision on an estimated necessary £141m of funding for a final go-ahead which may depend on the outcome of a business case and a ground investigation. The Labour Government recently announced a £2bn funding package for