Category: Local News

Bolsover District Council planners have provisionally given the go-ahead for a residential development in Derbyshire which will unusually not need to make additional financial contributions to the area’s infrastructure – because the scheme involves purely ‘affordable’ properties and will help meet the crucial need for housing. The council’s planning committee approved Dukeries Homes’ planning application

A man has been jailed after a burglary in Whitwell and six other people have been arrested after burglaries and vehicle thefts across Derbyshire. Neil Mann was disturbed by a neighbour as he helped himself to items from a home in Middlegate Field Drive, at around 4pm on 16 February. A young woman heard footsteps

A Derbyshire council’s solar farm plans have been delayed by six months and are due to be pushed forward this summer. Derbyshire County Council says that its planned solar farm, next to the Williamthorpe Nature Reserve, a few miles southwest of Chesterfield in North East Derbyshire, has been delayed by six months. It had aimed

A North Derbyshire junior school is set to be demolished and rebuilt as part of a Government replacement scheme. The plans, submitted by the Department for Education and Bowmer + Kirkland to Amber Valley Borough Council, would see Somerlea Park Junior School in Bank Street, Somercotes, demolished and replaced. Borough council planning officers have recommended

Police were called to reports of a fire at a house on Staunton Close in Chesterfield at 2.50am this morning, Sunday 7 April. Officers attended with colleagues from Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service and East Midlands Ambulance Service, and assisted with road closures and scene preservation. A woman managed to escape from the property but

Derbyshire County Council has insisted it remains committed to supporting people with learning difficulties and autism despite plans to consider stopping a number of ‘Day Opportunity’ and ‘Short Break’ support services as the authority faces on-going financial problems. The Conservative-controlled council’s cabinet will decide at a meeting on April 11, at County Hall, in Matlock,

Police and partners have been talking to young people to find out what they know about spiking, and how we can best support them. Whilst Derbyshire remains below the regional average for cases of spiking, we will never become complacent and will always take the opportunity to raise awareness and prevent incidents from happening. Officers,

Derbyshire council’s Deputy Leader has highlighted the positives of the authority’s ‘£173,000’ audio-visual system in its meeting chamber with possible future plans for live-streaming for the public and a voting system to identify how councillors are choosing to vote. The Conservative-controlled county council was asked by opposition Labour Cllr Kevin Gillott at a Full Council

Derbyshire County Council’s leader has urged fellow councillors to get behind whoever is elected as the first ever East Midlands Combined County Authority Mayor regardless of political affiliation and for the county council to grab the new authority’s opportunities by the ‘scruff of the neck’. Cllr Barry Lewis, Leader of the Conservative-controlled Derbyshire County Council,

Chesterfield council planners have given the go-ahead for a residential scheme with 143 new homes in a Derbyshire village as part of the first of a potentially larger four-phase housing development despite some residents’ concerns about the loss of agricultural land, increased traffic and the strain on facilities. House builder Harron Homes’ planning application for