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Derbyshire Dales councillors have unanimously supported a series of actions that further the District Council’s progress towards its 2030 net zero carbon emissions target.
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Strike action called by the GMB Union today means that Serco's non-union crews are focusing on domestic waste collections. There will be no garden waste or recycling collections.
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At a full council meeting last night Derbyshire Dales councillors voted unanimously to initiate an independent review of the waste and recycling collection contract to establish Serco’s performance against the requirements of the contract using qualitative and quantitative methods.
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Two Derbyshire Dales parks – Bakewell’s Bath Gardens and Matlock’s Hall Leys Park – have been named among the best green spaces in the UK.
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Industrial action called by the GMB Union is scheduled to escalate to strike days for Serco’s local union staff tomorrow (Friday) and this coming Monday, 18 October.
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It's great to see improvement work has started at Hurst Farm Social Club - the Farmers' View - as part of our Hurst Farm Regeneration Project.
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We continue to be aware of some delays in waste and recycling collections and advise residents that you should leave out any missed containers. Our contractor is working Saturdays to catch up and crews will get to you as soon they can.
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The October full meeting of the District Council will take place at Wirksworth Leisure Centre this Thursday at 6pm.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council has partnered with PayByPhone, the global leader in mobile parking payments, to offer drivers the option of cashless parking in its 30 off-street car parks. The new service launched this week.
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Our October Planning Committee meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm on Tuesday 12 October.
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It's Customer Service Week and we're celebrating the great work of our Customer Services Team here at the District Council.
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Local people are being invited to have their say on proposals aimed at ensuring public spaces across the Derbyshire Dales remain clean, green and safe places to visit. 
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Derbyshire Dales 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.
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Our Governance & Resources Committee meeting on Thursday 30 September will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.
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Members of the District Council's Community & Environment Committee will discuss two major items at a meeting next Wednesday, 22 September, which will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council is undertaking a Resident Survey this month, asking for views on the services it delivers and how local people feel about the area.
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Four of the Derbyshire Dales' beautiful larger parks are to host family friendly 3k events soon.
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Plans to transform the site of an Ashbourne service station and associated buildings into 37 environmentally sustainable affordable homes have been approved by the District Council's Planning Committee.
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We are aware of some delays in waste and recycling collections and advise residents that you should please leave out any missed containers and our contractor will get to you as soon they can.
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The region’s top autumn event burst back into life at the weekend as crowds cheered the first viewing of this year’s Matlock Bath Illuminations.
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We've published a Public Path Diversion Order regarding a public footpath at Kniveton.
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A year after the coronavirus pandemic swept through Derbyshire, the economic impact is still being felt right across the county, with many businesses still counting the cost and people who lost their jobs still looking for work.
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We've dug into the archives to find a photo of our Ashbourne Recreation Ground with the bandstand there looking in better shape than it has in recent times.
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Our September Planning Committee meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm on Tuesday 14 September.
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The last remaining Covid business support grant closes for applications today (Friday 3 September).
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Want to know more about electric cars?
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New boundaries are being proposed for Derbyshire Dales District Council's wards.
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THANK YOU for your patience and understanding in recent weeks. You will be aware that our contractor has been impacted, like many others, by the national shortage of HGV drivers. The recent suspension of garden waste and food waste collections has enabled us to catch up with a huge backlog of missed collections.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council is working with volunteers from EMH Care & Support who provide day opportunities for people with learning disabilities and autism. 
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Our phone lines will be closed from 5pm on Friday 28 May until 9am on Tuesday 1 June. Listed below you can find a bin collection timetable and how to report stray dogs and a homeless emergency issue. Matlock Town Hall remains closed to visitors.
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Worthy causes in the Matlock area are being invited to apply to Derbyshire Dales District Council for funds from the historic Ernest Bailey Charity. 
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Derbyshire Dales District Council is working towards its commitment to tackling climate change.
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After being cancelled last year due to the pandemic, Matlock Bath Illuminations return for an eight-week season every weekend from 11 September.
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Derbyshire Dales 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.
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A plan for 47 town centre apartments across the road from Matlock's Hall Leys Park received enthusiastic support from the District Council's Planning Committee on 10 August.
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A waiting list has been created after all 500 tickets were snapped up for the free screening of Mamma Mia! and the live music festival during Matlock's Welcome Back Weekend on 20 & 21 August.
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Our Planning Committee meeting on Tuesday 10 August will be broadcast live on YouTube from 6pm.
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Don't get caught out by the waste and recycling catch-up - which begins on Monday 2 August.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council's new Civic Chairman has chosen the Air Ambulance Service as his nominated charity for the coming year.
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Serco have some catch-up crews operating tomorrow (Saturday) ahead of the major sweep-up of missed collections starting on Monday, so please leave out any containers
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To enable us to catch up on all missed waste and recycling collections to date - including excess recycling - councillors have agreed to suspend from this coming Monday (2 August) garden waste collections for a period of one month.
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Parking will be free after 2pm throughout the month of September in Derbyshire Dales District Council's car parks in Ashbourne, Bakewell, Matlock, Matlock Bath and Wirksworth - to help stimulate town centres in the recovery from the Covid pandemic.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council's upgrade of the Yokecliffe play area in Wirksworth is taking shape during Love Parks Week.
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The extraordinary full council meeting on Tuesday 27 July will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.
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Love Parks Week is a great time to check on the progress being made at Middleton by Wirksworth Recreation Ground - one of more than 30 parks across the Derbyshire Dales maintained by the District Council.
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The suspension from today of food waste collections as a temporary measure has freed up teams to enable all other scheduled rounds to take place today, including some catch-up and bin delivery crews.
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Keep Britain Tidy will be running their annual Love Parks campaign this summer. This year’s theme is a rallying cry; to Love, Respect, and Protect our parks throughout the summer of 2021 and beyond.
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Key recommendations to be put to district councillors at an extraordinary council meeting next week include a proposal to equally share with Serco until March next year the cost of increasing the hourly rates of pay for HGV drivers on Derbyshire Dales waste & recycling rounds.
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A reminder that we're asking residents from Monday 26 July as a temporary emergency measure to mix your food waste in your usual household waste (grey) bin or sacks (if you're not on a bins round).
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Waste & recycling update Thursday 22 July
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Our Civic Chairman Councillor Steve Wain has met in Hathersage with Hope Valley Climate Action to support Travelling Light, an ecosytem of low carbon travel connecting the area.
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BINS UPDATE – TUESDAY 20 JULY: Some better news: all scheduled household waste and recycling rounds are collecting today.
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BINS UPDATE – TUESDAY 20 JULY: Some better news: all scheduled household waste and recycling rounds are collecting today.
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Our post on Friday 16 July about planned emergency measures to help alleviate current waste & recycling disruptions in the Dales has prompted a lot of resident feedback, which we appreciate and are listening to.
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Organisations across Derbyshire are joining the UK’s first official Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week to take a stand in making communities safer.
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On Monday morning (19 July) the Met Office has just increased the heat health alert for the East Midlands from Level 2 to Level 3 from 0000 tomorrow (Tuesday) until 0900 on Thursday.
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After paying out more than £36.6-million in the past eight months helping local businesses survive, Derbyshire Dales District Council is gearing up to administer another Covid support grant.
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These are the temporary operational changes put together by the District Council and Serco to help alleviate current bin collection disruptions. The changes will start from 26 July for a period of three months.
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Coronavirus and overdue payments
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Ashbourne, Brailsford & Kirk Ireton Neighbourhood Plans ‘made’
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to partner with Derbyshire Dales District Council in delivering information to visitors to Matlock.
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The Local Government Boundary Commission has conceded it made errors in final recommendations for new boundaries for council wards here in the Derbyshire Dales.
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We want residents to be aware that we are back in an emergency situation with waste & recycling collections.
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The District Council's Planning Committee meeting on Tuesday 13 July will be broadcast live on our YouTube channel from 6pm.
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It’s Rural Housing Week – a great time to explain how the District Council works to enable and provide affordable homes in partnership with housing associations, community land trusts, almshouse trusts and charities.
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New planning guidelines have been adopted by Derbyshire Dales District Council, setting out how developers can integrate Climate Change measures into new developments.
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Our 8 July full council meeting will be broadcast live from the sports hall at Wirksworth Leisure Centre from 6pm.
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We're marking the 73rd birthday of the NHS by illuminating our Matlock Town Hall headquarters tonight.
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We've started work to provide up to 460 plots in the Steeple Arch Cemetery Extension at the top of Wirksworth.
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Latest bin update
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Derbyshire Dales is set to have new boundaries for its council wards.
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The 5 July meeting of our Community & Environment Committee will be broadcast live from the Members' Room at County Hall, Matlock, from 6pm.
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We are commemorating the 26th anniversary of the Bosnian Genocide during Srebrenica Memorial Week which begins on 4 July, by joining other local authorities across the UK in publishing this statement of support on our website.
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The 1 July meeting of our Governance & Resources Committee will be broadcast live from the Members' Room at County Hall, Matlock, from 6pm.
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Due to the small size of our Licensing & Appeals Committee, this meeting can be held with appropriate social distancing in the Committee Room at the Town Hall, Matlock.
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Please make any representations for tomorrow's Planning Committee no later than midday today (28 June).
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A multi-million pound scheme to unlock land for employment and housing in Ashbourne has taken another step forward with the completion by the County Council of a new roundabout that will link the development to the A52.
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Derbyshire Dales residents on a low income who are told by NHS Test and Trace to stay at home and self-isolate may be entitled to a one-off payment of £500 through the Test & Trace Support Payment scheme if they meet eligibility criteria.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council has successfully prosecuted Lee Burgin of the Old Eyre Arms, Hassop, for failing to comply with a noise abatement notice served under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council's Clean & Green Team have constructed new planters for the village of Hathersage - designed to encourage local people and visitors to continue to be Covid-safe. The project was made possible by the Government's 'Welcome Back Fund', which uses European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) cash to help high streets recover from the pandemic.
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All of this week we're flying the Armed Forces Flag at our Matlock Town Hall headquarters ahead of Armed Forces Day on Saturday (26 June).
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A booking cancellation means Derbyshire Dales District Council can't go ahead with a scheduled committee meeting on Wednesday 23 June.
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As part of our ongoing campaign to raise awareness of dog fouling across the Derbyshire Dales our team again patrolled Matlock's Dimple Fields from 7am on Friday (18 June).
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We're acutely conscious that bin collections in some parts of the Dales have not been happening to schedule in recent weeks - and we have demanded that our waste and recycling contractor, Serco, produces a workable catch-up plan no later than first thing tomorrow (Wednesday).
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The Boundary Commission for England has published its initial proposals for new constituency boundaries. The proposals and maps for the nine English regions have been published on its website.
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Long serving Derbyshire Dales District Council staff member Deb Heaton's services to the Monarch and the Royal Family have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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Volunteers’ Week is a time to say thanks for the contribution millions of people make across the UK through volunteering - and we want to pay tribute to the impact of volunteers here in the Derbyshire Dales.
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Happy Pride Month from all at Derbyshire Dales District Council.
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We are consulting on the Derbyshire Clauses Policy.
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Matlock ward member Councillor Steve Wain is Derbyshire Dales District Council’s civic leader in the coming year.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council is urging residents to report areas in the district where dog fouling is causing a problem. 
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Your District Council has been working with partners Platform Housing in Bakewell to bring forward an exciting development of affordable homes for local people.
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Derbyshire Dales District Council carried out an eviction of Travellers camped on the Matlock Station Car Park on Wednesday 26 May. 
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Derbyshire Dales District Council’s Annual Council Meeting will take place at Wirksworth Leisure Centre on Thursday 27th May at 6pm.
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Health Walks here in the Derbyshire Dales have sprung back into action since the Government rules relaxation on May 17.
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We've published a Public Path Diversion Order regarding a public footpath at Hulland Ward
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Local people are encouraged to get involved in a special free Explorer Event in Ashbourne Recreation Ground on Thursday 3 June from 1-2.30pm. 
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As we continue the roadmap out of lock down and more businesses re-open, Derbyshire Dales District Council is continuing to work with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to carry out spot checks and inspections on local businesses.
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