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Our Licensing team have supported the police as part of a week-long 'One Road, One Week' road safety campaign.

23 September 2020

Supporting road safety campaign

Derbyshire Dales District Council is urging residents to report areas in the district where litter and dog fouling are causing a problem under a new campaign – ‘Don’t be a tosser – bin it!’

15 September 2020

Derbyshire Dales residents urged to report litter and dog-fouling hot-spots

Building work on Ashbourne's exciting £830,000 Pavilion in the Park project could begin within months.

11 September 2020

Pavilion in the Park project kicking on

Early bird discounts are available now for Derbyshire Dales residents subscribing to a new garden waste collection scheme.

07 September 2020

Early bird discount for new garden waste scheme

Our Planning Committee on Tuesday 8 September will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.

06 September 2020

WATCH | Planning Committee, 8 September

Good news (and sorry for the delay) - the distribution of free food caddy liners has started to all 35,000 homes across the Derbyshire Dales.

06 September 2020

Free food caddy liners being delivered

Our sports development team are stepping into autumn with new exercise opportunities for local people.

06 September 2020

Stepping into autumn

Local residents are being warned not to lose their voice on decisions that affect them by making sure their electoral registration details are up to date.

04 September 2020

Derbyshire Dales residents urged to look out for their voter registration details

At an Extraordinary Council Meeting on 3 September councillors noted the significant recent increase in the use of disposable barbecues in the open countryside in the district, and the number of wild fires that have had a devastating and long-lasting deleterious impact on the ecology and biodiversity of our precious natural landscapes.

01 September 2020

WATCH | Extraordinary Meeting - disposable barbecues

An Extraordinary Council Meeting was called on Wednesday 2 September to identify potentially suitable locations for a permanent Gypsy and Traveller site in the Derbyshire Dales.

01 September 2020

WATCH Extraordinary Meeting - Traveller site location

Disposal of public open space at Ashbourne Recreation Ground

26 August 2020

Disposal of public open space at Ashbourne Recreation Ground

Have your say on a new political map for Derbyshire Dales District Council

25 August 2020

Have your say on a new political map for Derbyshire Dales District Council

Worthy causes in the Matlock area are being invited to apply to Derbyshire Dales District Council for funds from the historic Ernest Bailey Charity.

24 August 2020

Applications invited for historic Matlock grant

At our full council meeting on 27 August councillors will consider a report outlining the potential to increase the biodiversity of road verges and public open spaces we manage.

21 August 2020

WATCH | Full Council, 27 August

Derbyshire Dales District Council has pledged its support for this year’s Great British September Clean, run by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.

19 August 2020

September Clean appeal to Dales communities

Our Governance & Resources Committee meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube on Thursday 20 August from 6pm.

19 August 2020

WATCH | Governance & Resources Committee, 20 August

A "virtual" meeting of our Community & Environment Committee this Wednesday, 19 August, will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm.

18 August 2020

WATCH | Community & Environment Committee, 19 August

Local people are being invited to comment on a draft neighbourhood development plan that sets out a vision for the future of Ashbourne.

14 August 2020

Plan sets out vision for future of Ashbourne

Your District Council has stepped in with partners to create a new pavilion for Ashbourne Park Bowls Club.

13 August 2020

Teamwork creates new pavilion for Ashbourne club

#ShopLocal Week continues until Sunday and we're urging Dales residents to do their bit to help local businesses rebuild from the coronavirus pandemic.

10 August 2020

Support #ShopLocal Week

Our councillors agreed at an Extraordinary Council meeting on 12 August to provide extra funding to Freedom Leisure to enable the reopening of Derbyshire Dales leisure centres in Ashbourne, Matlock and Wirksworth with reduced hours and new Covid safety measures.

07 August 2020

WATCH | Decision on extra funding for leisure centres and Serco

We now have the resources to re-start bulky waste collections, which were paused during the coronavirus lockdown.

07 August 2020

Bulky waste collections restarting

Our Planning Committee will meet again virtually on 11 August - and the meeting will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm (watch below).

05 August 2020

WATCH | Planning Meeting, 11 August

The Government has announced that three Covid-19 business grant funds will close soon - so it's the last chance for Derbyshire Dales companies to apply for support.

05 August 2020

Last chance for Dales businesses to apply for Covid grants

Calver ward member Councillor Helen Froggatt is Derbyshire Dales District Council’s new civic leader.

28 July 2020

New Chairman of the District of the Derbyshire Dales

With garden waste collections now operating to schedule across the Derbyshire Dales during the continuing coronavirus pandemic, local residents are being reminded there will be a charge for the service from April next year.

27 July 2020

Residents’ garden waste service questions answered

Although leisure centres are allowed to open from 25 July, Freedom Leisure has announced the centres in Derbyshire Dales will remain closed for the time being.

21 July 2020

Statement on Dales leisure centres

Food waste collections in the Derbyshire Dales will return to weekly from Monday 27 July.

21 July 2020

Food waste collection returns to weekly

Our monthly Bakewell Farmers' Market returns this Saturday (25 July) after being paused from the start of the coronavirus lockdown.

20 July 2020

Bakewell Farmers’ Market returns

Our delayed Annual Council Meeting will take place virtually on Wednesday 22 July - to be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.

20 July 2020

WATCH | Annual Council Meeting

Our first virtual Planning Meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm on Tuesday 21 July.

20 July 2020

WATCH | Virtual Planning Meeting

£100,000 funding from Derbyshire Dales District Council has transformed a number of "non-traditional" homes at Matlock's Hurst Farm.

14 July 2020

Energy boost for Hurst Farm homes

Our sports development team have leapt at the opportunity for even more exercise than usual.

13 July 2020

Sports team delivering the goods

The Electoral Registration Canvass regulations have changed this year - so please look out for an email from us prompting you to confirm your electoral register details are correct and to identify any potential new electors.

13 July 2020

Look out for Electoral Registration email

Derbyshire Dales District Council's full council meets on 15 July to complete business that was withdrawn or adjourned earlier this month.

13 July 2020

WATCH | Full council meeting 15 July

Join in with the 100 million visits to UK parks this #LoveParks Week (12 - 21 July) and tell the world why you love your park.

13 July 2020

#LoveParks Week 2020

Following the latest Government announcements a number of additional business sectors are able to reopen over the next few days.

10 July 2020

Guidance available as more Dales businesses prepare to reopen

The Derbyshire Dales Covid-19 Discretionary Grant Fund has been further extended to include more small businesses struggling to survive due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

10 July 2020

Final call for applicants to Discretionary Grant Fund

As agreed, the reopening of Derbyshire Dales District Council’s public toilets has been reviewed after two full weeks of operation - and from this Friday (10 July) opening hours will be extended.

08 July 2020

Opening hours extended for Dales toilets

Our outdoor fitness classes bounce back in Ashbourne this week on 8 July.

06 July 2020

Outdoor classes bounce back

We are commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Bosnian Genocide during Srebrenica Memorial Week which began on 5 July, by joining other local authorities across the UK in publishing this statement of support on our website.

06 July 2020

Statement on Srebrenica Memorial Day 2020

Derbyshire Dales District Council has received the Team of the Year prize at the prestigious 2020 Lawyers in Local Government (LLG) Awards.

03 July 2020

Top award for District Council’s legal team

Eighteen years since we last controlled Council Housing, Derbyshire Dales District Council has voted unanimously to once again deliver its own homes on its own sites, buying empty homes and through private housing developments.

03 July 2020

Derbyshire Dales to build Council Housing again

Our Clean & Green team have been working hard to prepare the 32 play areas we operate across the district to reopen from 4 July on a trial basis.

03 July 2020

Play areas reopen on trial basis from 4 July

As more businesses prepare to reopen their doors to the public from this Saturday, 4 July, Derbyshire Dales District Council is ready to help where needed.

01 July 2020

Guidance available as Dales businesses prepare to reopen

The deadline for Derbyshire Dales businesses impacted by Covid-19 to apply for discretionary grant funding is 5pm on 7 July.

29 June 2020

Deadline nears for discretionary grant fund

It's a busy agenda for a full meeting of the District Council on Thursday, 2 July, to be broadcast live at 6pm on our YouTube channel.

26 June 2020

WATCH | Full Council meeting 2 July

All of this week we've been flying the Armed Forces Flag at our Matlock Town Hall ahead of Armed Forces Day tomorrow (27 June).

26 June 2020

Armed Forces Day 2020

With massive regret Derbyshire Dales District Council has taken the decision to cancel this year's Matlock Bath Illuminations, the annual autumn event we have operated since 1984.

23 June 2020

2020 Illuminations cancelled with regret

The Derbyshire Dales Covid-19 Discretionary Grant Fund has been extended to include more small businesses – opening tomorrow (23 June) for a further two weeks.

22 June 2020

Discretionary grant fund extended to include more small businesses

We make no apology for repeating our appeal to everyone visiting Derbyshire Dales beauty spots this weekend to please show *RESPECT*.

19 June 2020

Respect our beautiful Dales

On Wednesday night (17 June) Matlock Town Hall was illuminated to underline our commitment to equality and diversity.

18 June 2020

Town Hall illuminated in support of Black Lives Matter

All of the political groups on Derbyshire Dales District Council have signed up to a joint statement calling on central government to ensure that the needs of local communities are fully considered as coronavirus lockdown eases.

16 June 2020

Cross-party statement - coronavirus

Travellers encamped in Bakewell have been served with an eviction Order, granted by a Court earlier today.

12 June 2020

Travellers served with eviction order

The reopening of public toilets and our award-winning Bakewell stall market was discussed by the Council's Emergency Committee on 11 June.

12 June 2020

Emergency Committee vote to reopen markets and public toilets

We were made aware last night (8 June) by one of our own Ashbourne councillors that approximately 150 locals had gathered by The Green Man & Black's Head sign in the town.

10 June 2020

Statement - Ashbourne sign

Eligible smaller businesses in the Derbyshire Dales struggling to survive due to the coronavirus shutdown can apply for new discretionary grant funding from Monday 8 June.

05 June 2020

Dales coronavirus discretionary grant fund opens on 8 June

Following a spate of damaging recent fires, we're supporting the Peak District National Park's announcement that barbecues and open fires are not permitted anywhere in open countryside throughout the Peak District.

05 June 2020

Crackdown on disposable barbecue use

WATCH | Our Emergency Committee at 6pm on Thursday 4 June will be streamed live on YouTube.

02 June 2020

Emergency Committee 4 June

We are appealing to visitors to show more respect after the Derbyshire Dales' main parks were left strewn with litter last weekend.

01 June 2020

Appeal to visitors to respect our parks

We have today (1 June) served legal papers on Travellers currently camped in Bakewell.

01 June 2020

Legal papers served at Bakewell encampment

Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK – and it’s taking place from 1-7 June 2020.

01 June 2020

Volunteers' Week 2020

The bins situation today (14 August) is that all scheduled collections are happening to schedule.

01 June 2020

Daily bin collections update

At close of business on Sunday 16 August we had applied £31.195-million in Government coronavirus business grant payments to 2,713 accounts.

01 June 2020

Daily business support update

The 420-space Agricultural Business Centre (ABC) car park in Bakewell has been closed by Derbyshire Dales District Council to protect the site.

28 May 2020

Bakewell car park closed to protect site

We're appealing for residents' continued patience and understanding when garden waste collections restart from Monday 1 June.

28 May 2020

Appeal as garden waste collections restart from 1 June

Our new Emergency Committee met for the first time on 21 May, agreeing to put in place measures that will enable garden waste collections to re-start in the district from 1 June.

22 May 2020

Garden waste collections to restart from 1 June

Derbyshire leaders have joined together to ask visitors to respect local communities this coming bank holiday weekend and to consider if they could come later in the year instead.

21 May 2020

Respect our local communities - joint message

Derbyshire Dales District Council's 11 public toilets will remain closed until the authority can guarantee the safety of users and cleaning staff.

21 May 2020

Dales toilets to remain closed until safety can be guaranteed

The Government has announced ‘top-up’ discretionary grant funding targeting small businesses with fixed property-related costs that have fallen between gaps in the existing COVID-19 Business Support Grant schemes.

14 May 2020

Coronavirus top-up discretionary grants

Charges will be reintroduced in our pay and display car parks this weekend following the Government's decision to relax coronavirus travel restrictions.

14 May 2020

Parking charges to be reintroduced in the Dales

The Leader of Derbyshire Dales District Council is asking would-be visitors to think twice before making a trip to one of the most beautiful regions in England.

13 May 2020

Respect and protect our communities

Derbyshire Dales District Council held its first virtual meeting on Tuesday, 12 May.

13 May 2020

Our first 'virtual' meeting

Friday 8 May marks the 75th anniversary of VE Day – the official end of the Second World War in Europe, and we want everyone to be able to commemorate this special day safely.

07 May 2020

VE Day celebrations

We've amended the criteria for one of our key grants during the coronavirus crisis.

04 May 2020

Coronavirus grant support

As we prepare to clap again for the NHS and key workers tonight (Thursday 30 April), we've put up banners on land we own in all five Derbyshire Dales towns to say *thank you*.

30 April 2020

Banners say "thank you"

A minute’s silence at 11am today (28 April) will pay tribute to key workers who have died from Covid-19, as part of International Workers’ Memorial Day.

28 April 2020

Tribute to key workers

Exercise videos targeting every age group and fitness level are being posted online daily by our sports development team.

20 April 2020

Targeting exercise during the coronavirus lockdown

With enormous regret we have made the decision to cancel our Cow Shed Beer Festival - scheduled for 19 & 20 June - due to the coronavirus crisis.

16 April 2020

2020 Cow Shed Beer Festival cancelled

We're appealing to households across the Derbyshire Dales to think of others and to not light bonfires during the current coronavirus lockdown.

12 April 2020

Coronavirus - please don't light bonfires

Easter weekend arrangements

10 April 2020

Easter holiday times & bin collections

Our message to anyone contemplating a visit to the Derbyshire Dales during the coronavirus lockdown is clear: Don't even go there!

09 April 2020

Don't Even Go There!

GOOD NEWS! From 15 April Serco, our waste collections & recycling partners, aim to resume normal collections of recyclable waste although garden waste collections will remain temporarily suspended.

09 April 2020

Normal recycling collections set to restart on 15 April

We added an Easter egg as a special gift to food boxes we delivered today to some of the people in most need here in the Derbyshire Dales due to the coronavirus crisis.

08 April 2020

Food boxes delivered

A Derbyshire Dales manufacturing business played its part in today's opening of the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital at London's ExCeL centre.

03 April 2020

Dales company plays its part in new Nightingale Hospital

We appreciate what you really want right now is for us to collect your recycling. We'll be announcing a coronavirus impact contingency plan soon - but in the meantime you can create more space in your recycling container by squashing and flattening materials.

02 April 2020

Recycling - please squash and flatten!

We're working hard and fast to deliver to local small businesses £35-million in coronavirus impact grants and rate relief announced by Government.

02 April 2020

Working hard for Dales businesses during coronavirus crisis

At the end of another financial year Derbyshire Dales District Council is donating more than £3,000 in unspent grants from 2019/20 to two local food banks.

01 April 2020

Supporting food banks during coronavirus crisis

Derbyshire Dales District Council recognises that in these unprecedented times many of our residents and businesses will need financial support.

27 March 2020

Financial support for residents and businesses during Covid-19

Derbyshire Dales District Council has given notice that it intends to transfer land known as The Pinfold at Thatchers Lane, Tansley, to Tansley Parish Council.

27 March 2020

Proposed transfer of The Pinfold, Tansley

Your District Council has today removed business rates bills for local shops and leisure businesses affected by coronavirus measures.

27 March 2020

Business Rate Reliefs to help local firms

Councils across Derbyshire are appealing to property owners that might have habitable property available for individuals or households that find themselves with nowhere to live right now.

26 March 2020

Appeal for properties during coronavirus outbreak

Although our car parks remain open for the benefit of Derbyshire Dales residents who are working from home or making essential visits as set out by Government, we will from this evening put up clear signage asking motorists if they need to be there and to follow current Government coronavirus measures.

24 March 2020

Car parks message - coronavirus

Bin collections here in the Derbyshire Dales are being impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.

24 March 2020

Bin collections impacted by coronavirus

Derbyshire County Council's Covid-19 Community Response Unit is now live.

23 March 2020

Covid-19 Community Response Unit

We've informed stallholders that we have taken the decision to cancel tomorrow's Bakewell Stallmarket (Monday 23 March).

22 March 2020

Bakewell stallmarket cancelled Monday 23 March

To protect our bin crews and maintain waste collection services here in the Dales, please follow the guidance issued by Government if you are self-isolating or displaying symptoms of coronavirus:

18 March 2020

DEFRA guidance for Dales households self-isolating due to COVID-19

An Extraordinary Meeting of Derbyshire Dales District Council was called at short notice on Thursday 19 March during the coronavirus pandemic.

18 March 2020

WATCH | Extraordinary Council meeting

Look out for the Spring 2020 edition of our Dales Matters publication dropping through your letterboxes with 2020/21 Council Tax bills - and view the digital version here.

13 March 2020

Dales Matters Spring 2020 edition

Derbyshire Dales residents' 2020/21 Council Tax bills are in the post - and in the *same envelope* look out for this year’s resident parking concession permit.

12 March 2020

Look out for this year's parking concession permit