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Delivering the Local Plan to tackle inappropriate development

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Since 2019 we’ve been working hard to fix the planning mess we inherited from Labour.

After more than a decade without one, we’ve got a new planning framework (Local Plan) in place to help stop the cycle of unplanned and speculative developments that local residents didn’t want. The decade without a plan under Labour saw 1000 extra homes built that weren’t planned - since we got a new plan in place, we’ve been able to prevent the 300 new houses applied for on Coupe Lane, 400 houses at Ash Crescent, as well as proposed further new homes in Tupton and Wingerworth.

The new Local Plan also means we can better plan infrastructure like roads, schools and health services for any new homes.

We’ve also:

  • invested £200k in strengthening our planning department to provide in-house knowledge to effectively consider applications
  • more than doubled our planning enforcement team so we can take more action on developers not complying with conditions or unauthorised developments
  • recruited new heritage and tree specialists so we can protect our historic and natural environment

Your Conservative Councillors, working together, have delivered the Local Plan and taken back control of where housing developments can be built in North East Derbyshire.

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North East Derbyshire green belt

“Hands Off Our Green Belt!” Say North East Derbyshire Conservatives as Labour Leader’s Comments Prompt Furore

Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
The Leader and Deputy Leader of the Conservative main opposition Group at North East Derbyshire District Council have written to the new Labour Council Leader to urge him to join them in condemning Sir Keir Starmer’s recent comments about building on the green belt. In an interview with Times Radio
Clay Cross Town Deal high street computer generated image

Focused on delivering the £24 million Clay Cross Town Deal for residents

Thursday, 9 March, 2023
We were successful in securing a £24.6 million Town Deal investment from the government in 2021 and we’ve since been working hard to progress the projects to deliver the maximum benefit for our area.
Cllr Charlotte Cupit and Lee Rowley MP on Clay Cross High Street

Bank hub coming to Clay Cross

Sunday, 5 March, 2023
It is brilliant news that Clay Cross is getting a banking hub, six years after the last permanent branch closed in 2017. These new banking hubs are a solution to try to bring banking back to communities.
Cllrs Wendy Tinley, Steve Clough and David Drabble at the Westthorpe site

SUCCESS! WESTTHORPE PLANS FOR 400 HOUSES REJECTED BY NEDDC

Thursday, 19 May, 2022
LEE ROWLEY MP AND KILLAMARSH CONSERVATIVES WELCOME THE REJECTION OF THE PLANNING APPLICATION FOR NEARLY 400 HOUSES AT WESTTHORPE Lee Rowley MP and Killamarsh’s Conservative Councillors have strongly welcomed the decision by North East Derbyshire District Council’s planning committee to reject the a

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