erewash borough council Archives

Local people net £5.4m thanks to Citizens Advice

A frail pensioner who was left shivering at the age of 77 has paid tribute to Erewash’s Citizens Advice team for helping local people like her reap an eye-watering £5.4m in grants and benefits they were missing out on – just in the past year. The severely disabled resident, called Anne, was close to exhausting her savings and afraid to turn on her heating when she turned to the council-backed charity. Its experts were stunned to find she was not […]

19 August 2026 13

Borough Wide

Commemorating International Bomber Command Day

Erewash Borough Council’s Armed Forces Champion paid tribute to service men and women by laying a special wreath on International Bomber Command Day. Councillor Kate Fennelly presented the wreath made by children from Hallam Fields Junior School at a service in Lincoln on Thursday 23rd July. This year marks the sixth International Bomber Command Day, honouring the extraordinary achievements and sacrifices of the men and women who served during Bomber Command’s 32 years of operation. It also marks the 90th […]

12 August 2026 16

Deputy Mayor Linda cuts ribbon at £160k play mecca (Credit: EBC)

Borough Wide

£2m for new playgrounds to help get kids active

A record sum of almost £2million is to be spent by Erewash council on creating new playgrounds to get children more active. The borough’s leader Cllr James Dawson said the authority’s biggest ever investment in play areas will see the construction of 12 exciting fun zones where tired existing playgrounds have been identified as needing entirely new equipment. A 13th – in Sawley – will get its safety surfacing replaced along with new fencing. Cllr Dawson declared: “Happy and healthy […]

12 August 2026 29

HMO crackdown... Stanley Street in Long Eaton (Credit: Google Maps)

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Fined HMO owner’s £1.1k bill for ignoring borough council

An Erewash Borough Council investigation into an HMO – house of multiple occupation – has seen its owner taken to court and ordered to pay £1,145 in fines and costs. The authority launched its prosecution of landlord Mahmood Rahemtulla after he ignored a request to supply documentation about tenancy agreements and rent deposits at the five-bed house in Long Eaton. The council also wanted to know about other properties he has an interest in. A housing standards officer gave him […]

30 July 2026 25

Proud: schoolboy Nathan, 15 – seen with Mayor Cllr Greg Maskalick – becomes youngest resident ever to ask a public question at Long Eaton Town Hall council meeting (Credit: EBC)

Borough Wide

SUMMER KIDZ: Boy, 15, is youngest ever to ask town hall question

A proud schoolboy was congratulated by Erewash’s Mayor at a full meeting of the borough council – for becoming the youngest resident ever to submit a public question. Nathan Hayward, 15, wanted to know if the authority had any plans to introduce youth democracy schemes – and what the requirements might be to serve as a young person’s mayor or councillor. He was not old enough to ask the question himself – so his father accompanied him to Long Eaton […]

30 July 2026 21

Flowerbeds on White Lion Square in Ilkeston in 2018. Image from Google.

Borough Wide

Erewash flower displays pruned

Calls to “go out with a bang” and spend all of a Derbyshire council’s money reinstating £190,000 flower displays before it is abolished have been pruned. At an Erewash Borough Council meeting last week (Thursday, July 23rd), Reform UK had urged the Labour authority to reinstate flowerbeds to pre-Covid conditions. The meeting heard that councillors are regularly lobbied about the condition of local parks and verges due to rewilding and wildflower cultivation versus historic award-winning flower arrangements. There are said […]

28 July 2026 19

Borough Wide

Borough Council rejects wholesale free parking, increasing from the current chargeless Saturdays

A Derbyshire council has rejected calls for wholesale free parking across the borough, increasing from the current chargeless Saturdays. At an Erewash Borough Council meeting last week (Thursday, July 23rd), the Labour-run authority rejected calls from the opposition Reform UK and Conservative groups for widened free parking. The meeting heard that while parking is free on Saturdays, a quarter of motorists are still paying to park, with Labour saying “we don’t want your money”. Councillor Dan Price (Ref) had brought […]

28 July 2026 27

Gnome Island in Nottingham Road, Ilkeston. From Eddie Bisknell.

Borough Wide

Plans for large gnome statue on Ilkeston traffic island take a diminutive step forward

Plans to install a large gnome statue on a “culturally significant” ornament-adorned roundabout in a Derbyshire town have taken a step forward. In the midst of a near five-hour Erewash Borough Council meeting filled with debates about free parking, rewilding, a new M1 junction and asylum seeker accommodation, sat a discussion about Ilkeston’s beloved ‘Gnome Island’. The Nottingham Road, Park Drive and Morrisons junction is marked by a roundabout home to a number of gnomes, an impromptu community quirk which […]

27 July 2026 35

Borough Wide

Cricket, gymnastics and football get borough council boost

A much-loved local cricket club that was founded during the reign of Queen Victoria is poised to mark its 150th anniversary by installing the very latest in hi-tech grass – thanks to help from Erewash Borough Council. The “hybrid” wickets have been hailed as groundbreaking after being pioneered at Lord’s and the Oval. They feature natural turf with tiny amounts of unique polyethylene yarn stitched in to make the surface more durable. Sandiacre Town Cricket Club is to harness the […]

27 July 2026 29

erewash borough council

Local people net £5.4m thanks to Citizens Advice

Commemorating International Bomber Command Day

£2m for new playgrounds to help get kids active

Fined HMO owner’s £1.1k bill for ignoring borough council

SUMMER KIDZ: Boy, 15, is youngest ever to ask town hall question

Erewash flower displays pruned

Borough Council rejects wholesale free parking, increasing from the current chargeless Saturdays

Plans for large gnome statue on Ilkeston traffic island take a diminutive step forward

Cricket, gymnastics and football get borough council boost

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