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

Conservative-controlled Derbyshire County Council has paved the way to submit proposed changes to its electoral boundaries – which could see divisions and councillors in Labour-dominated Chesterfield reduced by one and the number of Conservative-dominated South Derbyshire divisions and councillors increased by one. County councillors voted by a majority at a Full Council meeting on March

Developers have launched the sale of a number of affordable homes as part of a controversial £60m residential scheme in north Derbyshire which had attracted concerns with an increasing number of developments in the area alongside worries of growing pressure upon village facilities. NE Derbyshire District Council approved Avant Homes Ltd’s planning application to build

A Derbyshire council is set to approve fines up to £1,000 for anti-social behaviour on a town marketplace and for nuisance driving across an entire borough. Amber Valley Borough Council is due to approve the new public space protection orders at a meeting on Wednesday, April 3. This includes a series of measures, including fines