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Scores of homes could soon be built alongside the M1 and A52 on the outskirts of a Derbyshire town, in the protected Green Belt. The plans, from Wheeldon Brothers, NM & DA Thorpe and NA Cotton, would involve 150 houses being built off Bostocks Lane, in Risley, next to the M1 and A52 junction for Sandiacre. If approved by Erewash Borough Council, the scheme would include 68 affordable homes – totalling 45 percent of housing on the planned estate. A […]
More than 1,800 Derbyshire children over the next five years will have to attend schools outside their catchment after central Government pulled the plug on a long-planned new secondary. A falling birth rate was the reason put forward for the Labour Government’s reason to scrap the planned £27 million 1,230-space secondary school on the Infinity Garden Village, bordering Chellaston. Its decision, issued at the end of March, came despite fervent lobbying from politicians of all political persuasions, including South Derbyshire’s […]
The Mayor of the East Midlands has secured an additional £57.2 million to support housing developments on brownfield land across the region. The funding will be used over the next four years to support the construction of more than 1,900 homes across Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, and Nottinghamshire. The homes will be built on brownfield land – previously developed sites which are now derelict or underused. These sites offer a major opportunity to deliver much-needed homes while making better use of land that already […]
By Eddie Bisknell - Local Democracy Reporting Service Derbyshire councillors have decided not to decide a planning application in a move branded “bizarre”, “peculiar” and “silly”. At an Erewash Borough Council meeting last night (Wednesday, March 11th), councillors refused to make a decision on a planning application for a five-bedroom HMO, which did not require planning permission under permitted development rights. After extensive discussions, including legal and planning advice, openly bemused councillors with self-confessed “headaches” voted in favour of non-determination […]
By Nigel Slater - Local Democracy Reporting Service Controversial plans to build up to 200 homes on “vital” green land next to a busy Derby road have triggered much concern. Keepmoat Homes is seeking permission from Derby City Council to build a “vibrant” estate consisting of dozens of homes off Acorn Way. The road links Oakwood and Chaddesden with Spondon. The application site is towards the Spondon end adjacent to Derby Road but is on Green Wedge land which separates […]
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