Category: Local News

Campaigners who have raised concerns about plans for a new woodland holiday park at a Derbyshire beauty spot including 75 new log cabins are urging people to attend a forthcoming meeting. Forest Holidays, which is the commercial arm of Forestry England, has submitted a planning application to Derbyshire Dales District Council to consider plans for

Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins hopes the region will be able to finalise allocated regeneration funding arrangements under the new Labour Government after concerns have arisen about the future of a proposed £19.5m Town Deals scheme. The former Conservative Government had been looking to provide nearly £20m of funding to be overseen by the Labour-led Chesterfield

A Chesterfield woman who was diagnosed with leukaemia has told North Derbyshire Radio people need to be firm with doctors who dismiss their worries about concerning symptoms. Lizzie Burbeary, 30, first went to her GP in Bolsover District in 2021 when she found lumps on her scalp and down her neck when washing her hair.

Derbyshire council’s Highways team is joining forces with police to consider reducing speed limits between Clowne and Pleasley after campaigners have been calling for traffic-calming measures along a road that has been the scene of a series of collisions. Bolsover District Cllr Donna Hales and residents at the Oxcroft estate have raised concerns with Derbyshire

Officers have made communities safer with more than 9,000 hours of extra patrols across Derbyshire in the last year. Officers on hotspot patrols have prevented drug deals, found vulnerable missing people, and addressed nuisance behaviour targeting local businesses, conducting 111 arrests and speaking to more than 30,000 people. This addresses the concerns of our local

East Midlands’ politicians are calling for government funding to help bring forward the Chesterfield Staveley Regeneration Route (CSRR), to ensure a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revitalise several former north Derbyshire mining communities is not missed. The proposed 6km road would unlock the development of the former Staveley Works site for new housing, commercial units and community

Councillors have defended “putting their money where their mouth is” over a failed £180,000 Derbyshire planning appeal. A Derbyshire Dales District Council meeting last week saw councillors discuss the £181,619 cost of fighting an appeal for 87 homes at Leys Farm, off Wyaston Road, in Ashbourne. Government planning inspector Hayley Butcher allowed the plans at

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