The bad-tempered 5.5 hr Council meeting on Wednesday 26th February 2025 achieved very little for the City Questionable claims and confusing counter accusations were obscured by venomous politicking. Has the Council been […]
Derby City Council’s 5.5 hour Budget meeting delivers nothing for the City
Council to write off £1.45m on closure of the Assembly Rooms car park
This financial year, Derby City Council will have to write off £1.45m due to the closure of the Assembly Rooms car park. When the property was still operating and generating a surplus […]
Sporting Communities : Optimism over the Opportunities for Derby’s Community Libraries
Sporting Communities has been appointed by Derby City Council to run ten Community Libraries. This follows the collapse of the previous arrangement with Direct Help and Advice. Sporting Communities has developed a […]
Closure of Assembly Rooms car park: Council doesn’t know how much money it is losing
On 30th September 2024 the Assembly Rooms car park closed in readiness for the demolition of the entire venue Assembly Rooms: Car park closes amid controversy over demolition In this previous article […]
Derventio Housing: should be publicly investigated, not given awards
Derby News has been writing about Derventio Housing Trust CIC since 2019 highlighting many concerning issues about its finances and the level of payments to senior managers, including the Managing Director, Sarah […]
Council’s £9m budget overspend is not a “temporary deviation”
Mid Year forecast overspends in Derby City Council’s budget is an annual pre-Yuletide ritual; as is the highlighly engineered budget proposals masquerading as “balanced”. It is the charade that for years has […]
Assembly Rooms: Car park closes amid controversy over demolition
The Assembly Rooms car park closes on the 30th September 2024 marking the beginning of the end of a decade long shambles. Its closure will herald the commencement of the demolition process, […]
Derby City’s Full Council meeting – a complete waste of money?
There is a popular misconception that the Full Council Meeting of Derby City Council makes all of the important decisions; it rarely does. All 51 Councillors meet just 9-10 times per year […]
Sinfin Incinerator: why it will never reopen
On 21st August 2024, Derby City Council and Derbyshire County Council issued a combined statement regarding the future of the Sinfin Incinerator. This has been widely reported and interpreted as a change […]
Deda insolvency due to poor financial planning
On the 16th August 2024, Deda announced that it was entering Voluntary insolvency procedures “This difficult decision comes after enduring significant financial pressures since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.” One month […]
Derby City Council ignores £93m Sinfin Waste plan “invoice” in its latest financial statements.
In June, Derby City Council’s Tory Group Leader, Cllr Hassall was successful with his motion to oust the Leader of the Council, Cllr Shanker: “…to help prevent Derby’s finances from being obliterated” […]
Peaceful protest in Normanton
Many from the local community came out last night onto Normanton Road as a show of solidarity against the threatened presence of the “far right”. The atmosphere, whilst initially expectant, dissipated quickly […]
Becketwell Car Park option axed by St James Securities for commercial gain
In its latest annual report, St James Securities, the Becketwell developer reveals: “Athough demand for a Multi-Storey Car Park (MSCP) and a hotel is high, cost viability is a major issue without […]
Remembering the Srebrenica Genocide
On 11th July 1995, 8372 Bosnian men were killed in Srebrenica by the Serbian forces in one of the world’s most darkest moments of Genocide. Described by the United Nations as “The […]
Derby South voters should note Reform/Tory toxic tactics on sham Derbyshire County Council “invoice”
The disingenuous tactics of the Tory and Reform parties and, in particular, those of Cllrs Steve Hassall (Tory) and Alan Graves (Reform – Derby South candidate) demonstrate their transparent attempts to manipulate […]
Derby City Council removes Leader Cllr Shanker over invalid invoice.
Those people who packed the Council House gallery, yesterday evening, were the only public witnesses of the most bizarre episode in Derby City Council’s history. Unusually there was no live streaming of […]
Derby City Council Opposition Leaders jeopardise City’s finances over Sinfin Incinerator project “invoice”
On 31 May 2024, Derby City Council issued a statement confirming that it had received an invoice from Derbyshire County Council for £93.9m to “recover its share of the costs of the […]
Derventio’s maintenance “subsidiary” profitable for its shareholders – and cash rich!
Previous Derby News’ articles highlighted the extent to which Derventio Housing Trust CIC has generated significant cash surpluses from supporting homeless and vulnerable people. Derventio Housing’s “cash machine” raises further questions for […]
Derbyshire County Council blocks disclosure of “commercial” Sinfin Incinerator project charges made to Derby City Council.
The Sinfin Incinerator project is controversial. A joint project between Derby City Council and Derbyshire County Council has thus far failed to deliver and has already resulted in a termination payment of […]
Council’s Home to School transport supplier technically bust!
Previous Derby News articles have raised questions about Nottingham Specialist Transport (NST), the company which won the Derby City Council contract for transporting 400 Special Needs children from Home to School. Would […]
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