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400 new homes could be built next to Stoney Lane and the A52. Image by Google Maps.

Major row over homes off the A52 on the edge of Erewash

Derby’s Reform group has warned of a ‘heavy price to pay’ after a huge row broke out over planned locations of 12,500 new homes in the city. Councillor Tim Prosser, leader of Reform Derby, spoke out his concerns over where thousands of new homes will be built – and claimed his views had been ‘ignored’. But the city’s Labour administration accused him of ‘playing politics’. The group claimed Reform were trying to delay the city’s local plan, when doing so […]

20 July 2026 41

Derbyshire

Major progress made on Mayor’s brownfield plan to deliver new homes

More families, young people and key workers will be able to access affordable homes in their local communities with the Mayor of the East Midlands' brownfield regeneration plan is on track to deliver more than 1,000 properties. The Brownfield Housing Fund (BHF) programme is already supporting the delivery of 1,765 homes across the region over the next four years, with thousands more expected through the first three phases of the scheme. The fund will help meet housing demand while transforming […]

20 July 2026 31

The planned site of 160 homes in Breadsall Hilltop. Image from Google.

Borough Wide

Plans for 160 homes have been filed for Green Belt land between a Derby suburb and a nearby village

Plans for 160 homes have been filed for Green Belt land between a Derby suburb and a nearby village. Derby-based firm Wheeldon Brothers has applied to build 160 homes off Hungerhill Close in Breadsall Hilltop, on grassland between the Derby suburb and neighbouring Breadsall. If granted permission by Erewash Borough Council, the project, which leads through an existing large newbuild estate, would include 72 properties (45 per cent) classed as affordable housing. The Breadsall Hilltop plot is a further attempt […]

15 July 2026 100

Borough Wide

New £31m investment to bring empty homes back into use and unlock housing growth

More than £31 million is set to be invested by the Mayor of the East Midlands to create more homes, bring empty properties back into use and support the regeneration of communities across the region. The proposals include £30m for a new Housing and Regeneration Fund and £1.6m to bring empty homes back into use and help tackle homelessness. Together, the two funds would help tackle housing shortages, improve neighbourhoods and support people who need a safe and secure place […]

25 June 2026 20

The proposed site of 150 homes in Bostocks Lane, Risley. Image from Google.

Borough Wide

A52 housing plans for Risley/Sandiacre

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 […]

28 April 2026 207

The 'panicked' deer on land between Spondon and Spondon Wood, and concerned residents talking about the issue. By LDR Eddie Bisknell.

Borough Wide

Government refuses to intervene over controversially approved plans for houses in Derby’s protected Green Belt

By Eddie Bisknell - Local Democracy Reporting Service The Government has refused to intervene over controversially approved plans for houses in Derby’s protected Green Belt. In a case which residents and councillors feared would be a “dangerous precedent”, developers submitted and had plans approved for a Green Belt housing site which a Derbyshire council had tentatively earmarked, but not adopted, as part of a future homes plan. That draft housing plan, for 7,000 homes by 2040, drawn up by Erewash […]

1 April 2026 30

Sandiacre

Plans for 100 homes submitted for land between the M1 and Sandiacre

By Eddie Bisknell - Local Democracy Reporting Service Plans for 100 homes on land between the M1 and a Derbyshire town have emerged – just months after a housing blueprint including the plot was scrapped. Peveril Homes has filed plans for 100 houses off Larch Drive, Sandiacre, between the town and the M1, including a footpath across the Green Belt fields which leads to a motorway footbridge. The developer has argued that the Green Belt plot, protected from inappropriate development […]

31 March 2026 22

News

Stalled housing and employment sites to be unlocked with new £165 million road fund

Thousands of new homes and jobs are set to be unlocked as the Government launches a new £165 million fund to remove the barriers holding back housing and key growth developments across England. The new Growth and Housing Accelerator Fund will target sites where progress has stalled due to funding constraints, delivering the transport improvements and links needed to get building started. Launching in the coming weeks, it supports the Government's plan to raise living standards and deliver 1.5 million […]

30 March 2026 43

Derby

Traffic fears at ‘terrible’ roundabout

By Nigel Slater - Local Democracy Reporting Service Heavy traffic at a “terrible” Derby roundabout could worsen if 200 new homes are built near it, it is feared. Concerns over plans to build new homes off Acorn Way were discussed at a public meeting in Spondon. Keepmoat Homes wants outline planning permission from Derby City Council to build on land located between Spondon and Chaddesden. The national developer says it wants to create an “attractive, vibrant and stimulating environment” and its […]

25 March 2026 25

New homes

Major row over homes off the A52 on the edge of Erewash

Major progress made on Mayor’s brownfield plan to deliver new homes

Plans for 160 homes have been filed for Green Belt land between a Derby suburb and a nearby village

New £31m investment to bring empty homes back into use and unlock housing growth

A52 housing plans for Risley/Sandiacre

Government refuses to intervene over controversially approved plans for houses in Derby’s protected Green Belt

Plans for 100 homes submitted for land between the M1 and Sandiacre

Stalled housing and employment sites to be unlocked with new £165 million road fund

Traffic fears at ‘terrible’ roundabout

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