Derbyshire council’s cabinet has agreed to recommend a range of multi-million pound saving measures to the Full Council for approval after previously setting a balanced budget plan to meet an estimated deficit of over £39m for the 2024-25 financial year. The cabinet voted in favour of its Departmental Service Plans 2024-25, at a meeting on
Derbyshire council is to introduce cost-saving efficiency changes at its nine household waste recycling centres including reduced opening hours, new charges to dispose of tyres and asbestos, and a trial scheme to allow small businesses to pay to use two of the centres. The Conservative-led council – which recently announced plans to set a balanced
A former Derbyshire Constabulary female police constable has been placed on the barred list after she engaged in inappropriate sexual behaviour at the workplace. Former PC Elle Cross’ policing career stands in jeopardy after a series of allegations regarding her conduct which made colleagues feel uncomfortable were found proven and amounted to gross misconduct. The
Derbyshire County Council’s environment chief has welcomed a £100,000 Government funding boost to help with the authority’s backlog of planning applications. Cllr Carolyn Renwick, Cabinet member for Infrastructure and Environment, said she was delighted with the council’s successful bid for the grant funding from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Planning Skills Delivery Funding
Derbyshire County Council is recommending plans for a new political map with 64 single-member electoral divisions each represented by one councillor which could see the current divisions and councillors in Chesterfield reduced by one and the number of South Derbyshire divisions and councillors increased by one. The Conservative-led council agreed its related recommendations as part
Derbyshire Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a fatal collision in Buxton last night. The collision occurred in Goyts Lane, near Errwood Reservoir, at around 11pm on Wednesday 6 March. The car, grey VW Polo, left the road and went down an embankment before landing on its roof. A 17-year-old boy, who
Derbyshire’s household tips are set to have their hours reduced, start charging for tyres and asbestos and seek to restrict access to county residents only. In a bid to save half-a-million pounds a year, cash-strapped Derbyshire County Council is set to bring in a number of changes to its nine household waste and recycling centres.
A frustrated north Derbyshire councillor has urged a local authority to do what it can to help residents who have complained about noise during extension work night-shifts at a large Chesterfield-based cold storage facility. NE Derbyshire District Council gave planning permission back in 2021 for the extension at the Magnavale cold storage facility on Park
North East Derbyshire District Council has argued it was necessary to spend £210,000 on audio-video equipment and furniture for its new council chamber after the previous smaller chamber posed health, safety and technological difficulties. The labour-led council recently moved to a larger chamber at its offices on Mill Lane, Chesterfield, that has been fitted with
A landslip-hit Derbyshire road which has been closed for 17 months will now remain shut for at least another 15 months, taking it past two-and-a-half years. Heavy rainfall caused a 40-metre landslip on Leashaw, between Crich and Matlock, in November 2022 and now the route will remain closed until at least the summer of 2025.