Tag: Derbyshire County Council

Reform UK has reshuffled its cabinet members for education following the resignation of one councillor for “personal reasons”. Councillor Alan Graves, Derbyshire County Council’s Reform leader, has appointed Cllr Simon Mabbott (Ilkeston South & Kirk Hallam) as cabinet member for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and education. Meanwhile, Cllr Paul Maginnis (Sawley) has been

Regeneration plans for Derbyshire have moved a step closer including the long-awaited £166m Chesterfield-to-Staveley bypass scheme after the county council’s cabinet rubber-stamped the allocation of millions of pounds of funding from the East Midlands Combined County Authority along with a list of potential projects. Derbyshire County Council’s Cabinet approved Government-backed EMCCA funding allocations for the

Reform’s Derbyshire County Council leader says a council tax cut would “affect residents badly” after election pledges to decrease annual bills for residents. Cllr Alan Graves, a long-term Derby city councillor and now Reform’s Derbyshire County Council leader, said his administration felt stuck between a rock and a hard place over an impending decision on

Derbyshire County Council has voted by a majority to oppose the development of large-scale solar-panel farms and battery energy storage systems on greenfield sites in the county in what it claims is a bid to protect the area’s countryside and food security. Council Leader Alan Graves’ motion was approved during the Reform UK-led authority’s Full

Derbyshire councillors are set to call on central Government to make a decision on stalled plans for four new schools around the county which have spent a year in budget limbo. For the past year, the future of four new schools in Bolsover, Derby and Wingerworth has hung in the balance due to a pause

Derbyshire County Council has confirmed discussions are underway with a care provider to take over eight of nine care homes which it controversially agreed to sell-off despite public outcry and a groundswell of opposition. The newly-elected Reform UK-controlled council is proceeding with the former Conservative-led administration’s plans for the authority to sell nine of its

A Derbyshire town council is still considering an offer from a football club to take over the running of its village hall despite concerns about the lengthy process, two abandoned meetings and the resignation of seven councillors. Shirebrook Town Football Club has expressed its wishes to take over the running of Shirebrook Village Hall, on

Campaigners are urging a Derbyshire council which has withdrawn adult education services from five centres to find some new way to secure the future of one of the axed learning hubs to meet the needs of adult learners in the areas affected. Derbyshire County Council recently announced that Adult Education Services are no longer to

Many of Derbyshire’s local authorities feel they have their borrowing debts under control despite the UK’s overall councils’ combined debt to lenders amounting to over £122.2 billion with a seven per cent increase during the last financial year. A BBC Shared Data Unit team’s analysis of information from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local