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
A leisure chief has told how Chesterfield Borough Council is having to review the deliverability of its parks and open spaces to make tens of thousands of pounds of savings as part of an overall drive to overcome the local authority’s estimated £4m budget shortfall. The council’s Leisure, Culture and Community Wellbeing Director, Ian Waller,