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VIDEO | We are pleased to celebrate the success of this award winning local business that champions sustainability.
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Tickets go on sale for our Matlock Bath Illuminations from Friday 1 July as one of the region’s premier events prepares to celebrate its 125th birthday.
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A Hurst Farm Heritage Trail for Matlock is one of seven new projects across the UK awarded a share of £13.7million by The National Lottery Heritage Fund on its mission to aid recovery for nature, communities and culture.
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A Bakewell affordable housing development is officially the best small residential development in the Midlands.
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A meeting of our Community & Environment Committee on Wednesday 29 June will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.
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A Community Governance review is underway to gauge local interest in taking forward proposals to change the size, boundaries and warding arrangements of three parish and town councils affected by the revised Derbyshire Dales District Council warding arrangements for Matlock and Darley Dale.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council is in the process of finalising its bid to the Levelling Up Fund for an exciting £15-million package of projects in Ashbourne town centre.
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Saturday 11th June saw the Official Grand Opening of a brand new community facility, Marston Montgomery Village Hall. 
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Our June Planning Committee will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel on Tuesday, 14 June from 6pm.
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Matlock Bridge will be closed to all traffic (pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles) from 7am on Monday 13 June 2022 until early August 2022 to enable preparations for essential flood prevention work to be carried out.
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We've taken a bit of a battering on social media over the past few days over our #NoMowMay site near Arc Leisure Matlock - even the naturalist Chris Packham has piled in.
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Our Lathkill and Bradford ward member Councillor Graham Elliott is the District Council's new Civic Chairman.
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Your District Council is issuing grants to 74 towns and villages across the Dales to help finance celebrations of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee over the coming long bank holiday weekend.
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The Derbyshire Dales well dressings season returns on 26 May with a Ukraine theme in the village of Tissington.
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Our phone lines will be closed from 5pm on Wednesday 1 June until 9am on Monday 6 June.
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An Extraordinary Meeting of the Council will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm on Tuesday 31 May.
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Twenty years since Derbyshire Dales District Council last controlled Council Housing, we have unveiled our first new energy-efficient property ready to rent.
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Your District Council has secured a £598,596 government grant to make energy efficiency improvements and remove gas heating at its three largest buildings.
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The Annual Meeting of the Council will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm on Thursday 26 May.
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Bridge News in the heart of Matlock is the town's new visitor information point.
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Matlock’s new Farmer’s View venue officially opened on 14 May following the £460,000 transformation of the former Hurst Farm Social Club.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council is encouraging local businesses and community groups to take part in its very first ‘Go Green’ event in Matlock's Hall Leys Park on Saturday 30 July. 
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The Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay will visit Bakewell and Matlock on many stops on its final journey through England this summer, as the full route is revealed.
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Government figures have revealed in the two years to March Derbyshire Dales District Council paid out £74,151,150 in Covid grants to support local businesses. 
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The Environment Agency (EA) has pledged between £3.5m to £5m to restore the flood protection to Matlock - and we're delighted to be able to work with our partners at the EA and Derbyshire County Council on this important project.
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Representatives from Nottingham Community Housing Association (NCHA) and Derbyshire Dales District Council got together this week to celebrate the beginning of work on a new £7.8m affordable housing development on Ashbourne’s Mayfield Road.
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In its search for land to accommodate a permanent Gypsy and Traveller site Derbyshire Dales District Council is seeking expressions of interest from land owners prepared to sell land or enter into a long lease for a site.
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Your District Council's innovative biodiversity project has entered its second year as the nation embraces #NoMowMay.
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Your District Council has approved amendments to a policy that enables local people to apply for a discretionary council tax discount in exceptional circumstances.
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Your District Council is helping local residents who have offered to support refugee families fleeing the war in Ukraine.
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The successful Derbyshire Dales Corporate Games return this summer after an enforced absence caused by the pandemic.
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While many local councils have elections next week, the only one here in the Derbyshire Dales is a by-election in the District Council's Carsington Water ward.
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If your Dales community is planning a celebration to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, please note that we need to receive any necessary licensing applications no later than 2 May.
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Our next full council meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm on Wednesday 27 April.
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Easter weekend arrangements
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Separate food caddy collections are restarting in the Derbyshire Dales from Monday 11th April so please leave your containers out for collection by 7am on your normal collection day.
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A campaign to encourage residents in the Hope Valley in the Derbyshire Peak District to use their local bus services is being launched next week. It will run for two weeks from 11 to 24 April. 
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Our April Planning Committee will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel on Tuesday, 12 April, from 6pm.
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A meeting of our Community & Environment Committee on Wednesday 6 April will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.
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Your District Council has made the finals of the prestigious MJ Achievement Awards 2022.
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Your District Council has successfully applied for £69,450 funding to create new accessible 'Changing Places' toilets at two of the district's popular visitor attractions.
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Your District Council has paid recovery grants to businesses directly impacted by the floods in Matlock and elsewhere a month ago.
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The Bishop of Repton, the Right Reverend Malcolm Macnaughton, has performed consecration ceremonies at new extensions to our Bakewell and Steeple Arch cemeteries.
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Roger Morgan-Grenville stopped off in Hartington yesterday (Monday 21 March) on his 1,000-mile walk from Lymington in the New Forest to Cape Wrath to raise awareness and funds for a small UK charity, Curlew Action.
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Our March full council meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm on Thursday 24 March.
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The dates have been announced for our popular Matlock Bath Illuminations, which celebrate their 125th birthday in 2022.
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Government is asking individuals, charities, community groups and businesses across the country to step forward and offer their support to thousands of people displaced from Ukraine, and their immediate family members, who need a route to safety.
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In the Council Tax envelope that will be posted to all households across the Derbyshire Dales from Monday (14 March) you'll find your resident parking concession permit for the coming year.
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The Spring 2022 edition of Dales Matters will be landing this week in the same envelope as Council Tax bills.
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As promised, current subscribers to our garden waste scheme can renew now for the new financial year from 1 April at a discounted rate of £35.
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We're building on the success of fun runs staged in two of our major parks early this year.
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Deputy Leader of Derbyshire Dales District Council, Councillor Susan Hobson is urging workplaces to celebrate women's achievements on International Women's Day.
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Our March Planning Committee will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel on Tuesday, 8 March, from 6pm.
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The main windows at our Matlock Town Hall headquarters are being illuminated in the blue and yellow colours of the Ukraine flag. #WeStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
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Derbyshire Dales councillors across the political spectrum have voted resoundingly in favour of a below-inflation 1.94% increase in the District Council's share of council tax in the coming financial year.
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Great British Spring Clean
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Your District Council is joining Nottingham Community Housing Association and the Rural Housing Enabler for a drop-in event to provide an update and details about the proposed local needs affordable housing for Tideswell.
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Our Annual Budget Meeting will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm on Thursday 3 March.
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Our retrofit work has been shortlisted for ‘best small retrofit project of the year’ at the prestigious Futurebuild awards.
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The permanent closure today of the privately owned Vital Earth reprocessing facility in Ashbourne means residents are asked for the next four weeks to mix food waste in their domestic waste containers.
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As Royal Shrovetide Football returns to Ashbourne this Tuesday and Wednesday your District Council is proud to be once again playing its part.
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Your District Council's Matlock Bath Illuminations bounced back in style in autumn 2021 after the event's Covid cancellation the previous year.
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A meeting of our Community & Environment Committee on Tuesday 1 March will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.
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The last remaining Flood Warning here in the Derbyshire Dales was lifted just before 9am this morning. At one stage on Sunday into Monday there were 19 separate Warnings on rivers in our area.
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Our latest Community & Environment Committee will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel on Wednesday 23 February, from 6pm.
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Neighbourhoods staff from Derbyshire Dales District Council will be knocking on doors in flood affected areas in the coming days to check on the welfare of local people.
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Derbyshire Dales residents and businesses are being invited to have their say on the District Council's 2022/23 spending proposals and council tax.
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Local rivers here in the Derbyshire Dales are expected to be in flood overnight into Sunday - and our message to residents living in at-risk areas is please be prepared.
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Local people with a connection to Eyam are being urged to take part in an online survey to have their say on housing issues.
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The Met Office reprt that Storm Eunice is likely to affect us in Derbyshire between 5am and 9pm tomorrow, Friday 18 February, with winds of up to 70mph forecast from the early afternoon until the early evening.
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Fairtrade Fortnight is taking place between 21st February to 6th March to highlight the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes.
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Beginners guide to home energy efficiency and retrofit
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An independent review to establish Serco’s performance against the requirements of the disrupted waste and recycling contract in the Derbyshire Dales will be debated by councillors at an extraordinary meeting on 17 February.
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Our February Planning Committee will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel on Tuesday, 8 February, from 6pm.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council has today launched a brand new website aimed at attracting new businesses to the area. 
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Derbyshire Dales District Council's popular community forums will restart "virtually" in February.
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Last week we released some of our own Clean & Green council staff to help support food waste collections - and we've managed this with minimal impact on services so far.
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Work to repair extensive rot in the bearing timbers supporting the deck of the Matlock Hall Leys Park footbridge will start in the next fortnight.
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We’re a top performer according to Climate Emergency UK’s Council Climate Scorecards for our Climate Action Plan.
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Today, 27 January, is Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, which encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide.
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A Service of Thanksgiving for one of the region's leading political figures, Councillor Lewis Rose OBE, will take place this Thursday, 27 January, at St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne, at 12.30pm.
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The January full meeting of the council will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel on Thursday 27 January from 6pm.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council is urging local businesses adversely affected by the Covid pandemic to apply for a reduction in business rates payable for 2021/22 following a recent Government announcement giving the council funding for rate-relief. 
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We are aware of a number of bin collections outstanding across the district, for which we apologise.
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Our latest Governnanbce & Resources Committee meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm on 20 January.
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An extraordinary meeting of the full council on Wednesday, 19 January, to discuss two major housing issues will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.
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Derbyshire Dales is set to have new boundaries for its council wards.
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Our January Licensing & Appeals Sub-Committee meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm on 13 January.
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One of the region's leading political figures, Councillor Lewis Rose OBE, has died aged 74.
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Our January Planning Committee meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm on 11 January.
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Unfortunately Covid staff absences mean some delays and disruptions to waste and recycling collections are inevitable in the coming days.
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The organiser of free health walks that take place across the beautiful Derbyshire Dales every weekday is appealing for new leaders to step forward.
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The government has today (21 December) announced the introduction of a new grant scheme to support businesses that are experiencing difficulties because of the Omicron variant. Hospitality and leisure premises will benefit from targeted grant support.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council is consulting on potential changes that could see up to four times the usual Council Tax charged on long term empty homes.
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Our phone lines are closed from 12 noon on Thursday 24 December, re-opening on Monday 4 January 2021
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Activity days for local children from disadvantaged families will take place at Derbyshire Dales leisure centres in Ashbourne, Matlock and Wirksworth early in 2022.
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