Borrowash

A Derbyshire council has apologised for directing distressed families at four closing care homes to an answer machine which advised them to wait up to three days for responses.

MPs representing both constituencies covering the Erewash borough have given their responses to plans by Derbyshire County Council to close eight care homes in the county including two local sites.

Campaigners opposed to Derbyshire County Council’s long-running agreement to sell eight care homes have been shocked to learn the authority’s new Reform UK administration is being forced to revise its plans with feared closures following a failed attempt to sell the homes to a single provider.

Plans are being revised for the future of eight Derbyshire care homes after a planned sale fell through.

A Derbyshire council has hit back at the Government after it was urged to scrap its entire future plan for thousands of homes or risk it being spiked.

A costly three-year wrangle over a future housing blueprint for a part of Derbyshire could see the plan scrapped, with the leadership saying they are now caught in “limbo”.

A councillor from Borrowash has been included in the prestigious 2025 Diversity Power List. Tania Stevenson is one of 50 people listed as champions of diversity and inclusion across the UK, the list honouring, highlighting and recognising individuals who work tirelessly to make a difference to other people’s lives.

Officials from the Long Eaton Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team have issued a statement after a period in which multiple reports have been received detailing the illegal use of E-scooters in the local area.

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People who fall victim to cardiac arrests have a better chance of survival – thanks to a new network of defibrillators installed across Erewash by the borough council.

Campaigners opposing development on an area of public open space in Borrowash which is subject to a planning application have been distributing leaflets to local residents referencing that it is 'highly contaminated.'

New proposals have been released, for homes on an area of public green open space that has been used for decades in Borrowash.

The site of a former community hall which was put up for sale and subsequently sold has been cleared and sealed after it became blighted by fly-tippers and break-ins.

A borough councillor has taken to social media to update Borrowash residents on the future of land known locally as 'Harrington Green'.

Derbyshire Police have used the arrival of the Tour of Britain road race in the county to remind both motorists and cyclists of the rules of the road.

Independent councillors representing Ockbrook and Borrowash have taken to their social media page in a call for residents to give a collective 'NO' message to National Grid proposals for pylons through the two villages.

A parish council in the borough is leading a petition to gather signatures to support a proposal to counter National Grid plans to run a new pylon route through the borough.

Ockbrook & Borrowash Parish Councillor Greg Maskalick has crossed the political floor from being "one lone Independent" to join Labour at Erewash Borough Council.

Both MPs elected to seats covering the Erewash borough in the July 4th General Election have, along with a number of other Derbyshire MPs, co-signed a letter to the County Council Leader to protest and appeal against plans to close care homes and day centres.