Your council
Bolsover: what’s happening where you live
What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.
Bolsover District Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, East Midlands; within the county of DBY. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Derbyshire County Council.
Council website · Publication scheme
Do it online
- Household waste collection: Providing information
- Household waste collection: Reporting
- Bulky household waste collections: Applications for service
- Household garden waste: Providing information
- Recycling bags and containers: Providing information
- Flytipping: Reporting
- Noise pollution: Reporting
- Council tax annual notification: Providing information
- Council tax annual notification: Collecting revenue
- Council tax discount: Applications for service
- Council tax benefit new claim: Applications for service
- Housing benefit new claim: Providing information
- Electoral register: Providing information
- Electoral register: Applications for service
- Parking permits: Providing information
- Planning decision notices: Providing information
- Councillors directory: Providing information
- Complaints procedure: Providing information
Housing
We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
Transport
We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
Council tax
Band D set by Bolsover for 2026–27: £215.20 of a £2,559.41 total bill in the area.
We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
Environment
We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
Education
We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website
Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically
No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.
In the last twelve months: 1 opened (1 fresh start), 1 closed (1 fresh start)
- Stubbin Wood School — closed; reason recorded: fresh start, 31 August 2026
- Stubbin Wood School — open; reason recorded: fresh start, 1 September 2026
What the council plans to spend, 2026–27
| Service | Budget |
|---|---|
| Education services | none budgeted |
| Highways and transport services | £389,000 |
| Children's social care | none budgeted |
| Adult social care | £44,000 |
| Public health | none budgeted |
| Housing services (general fund only) | £1.9 million |
| Cultural and related services | £2.4 million |
| Environmental and regulatory services | £6.4 million |
| Planning and development services | £2.0 million |
| Police services | none budgeted |
| Fire and rescue services | none budgeted |
| Central services | £5.4 million |
| Other services | none budgeted |
| Total service expenditure | £18.6 million |
Bolsover in numbers
- Total population
- 83,773 people
- Median age
- 43 years
- Gross disposable household income per head
- £20,224
- Gross median weekly pay
- £612
- Children in relative poverty after housing costs
- 29.3%
- Claimant Count
- 2.9%
- Average house price
- £182,759
- Housing affordability ratio (residence-based)
- 5.5 affordability ratio
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- 10.6 tCO2e per capita
- Gigabit capable broadband
- 93.3%
- Public electric vehicle chargers
- 156.4 per 100,000 population
- Active businesses
- 2,230 number of enterprises
Who runs the council
37 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, with a majority.
Councillors by party: Labour Party 22, Independent / Other 12, Reform UK 2, Conservative and Unionist 1.
Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.
All 37 councillors, by ward
- Catherine Tite (Labour Party) — Ault Hucknall
- John Ritchie (Labour Party) — Ault Hucknall
- Tom Kirkham (Labour Party) — Ault Hucknall
- Duncan Haywood (Labour Party) — Barlborough
- Vicky Wapplington (Labour Party) — Barlborough
- Clive Moesby (Labour Party) — Blackwell
- Sally Renshaw (Labour Party) — Blackwell
- Anne Clarke (Independent / Other) — Bolsover East
- Rowan Clarke (Independent / Other) — Bolsover East
- Ashley Taylor (Labour Party) — Bolsover North & Shuttlewood
- Donna Hales (Labour Party) — Bolsover North & Shuttlewood
- Carol Wood (Reform UK) — Bolsover South
- Cathy Jeffery (Labour Party) — Bolsover South
- David Bennett (Labour Party) — Clowne East
- Rob Hiney-Saunders (Labour Party) — Clowne East
- Ross Walker (Independent / Other) — Clowne East
- Will Fletcher (Conservative and Unionist) — Clowne West
- Amanda Davis (Labour Party) — Elmton-with-Creswell
- Duncan McGregor (Labour Party) — Elmton-with-Creswell
- Rita Turner (Independent / Other) — Elmton-with-Creswell
- Sandra Peake (Independent / Other) — Langwith
- Steve Fritchley (Independent / Other) — Langwith
- Mark Hinman (Labour Party) — Pinxton
- Mary Dooley (Labour Party) — Pinxton
- Chris Kane (Independent / Other) — Shirebrook North
- Jen Wilson (Independent / Other) — Shirebrook North
- Jane Yates (Labour Party) — Shirebrook South
- Janet Tait (Independent / Other) — Shirebrook South
- Emma Stevenson (Independent / Other) — South Normanton East
- Lucy King (Labour Party) — South Normanton East
- Lisa Powell (Labour Party) — South Normanton West
- Louise Fox (Reform UK) — South Normanton West
- Phil Smith (Labour Party) — South Normanton West
- Deborah Watson (Independent / Other) — Tibshelf
- Justin Gilbody (Independent / Other) — Tibshelf
- Jeanne Raspin (Labour Party) — Whitwell
- Tom Munro (Labour Party) — Whitwell