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Derby: 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.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Derby City Council: Unitary authority (unitary), England, East Midlands; part of the EMCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E06000015.

Council website

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Derby for 2026–27: £1,898.99 of a £2,306.00 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

Walbrook Nursery School (nursery) — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger; proposed date 30 October 2026
Wren Park Primary School (primary) — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 October 2027

In the last twelve months: 3 opened (3 academy converter), 3 closed (3 academy converter)

Bridge Street School — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 October 2025
Castle School — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 October 2025
Kingsmead School — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 October 2025
Bridge Street School — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 November 2025
Castle School — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 November 2025
Kingsmead School — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 November 2025

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Derby reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Derby: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£216.9 million
Highways and transport services	£12.2 million
Children's social care	£98.3 million
Adult social care	£100.8 million
Public health	£27.7 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£8.9 million
Cultural and related services	£10.2 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£32.5 million
Planning and development services	£4.1 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£8.0 million
Other services	£18.5 million
Total service expenditure	£537.9 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Derby in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 274,149 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 37 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £19,635 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £588 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 32.5% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 5.0% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £207,250 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 6.0 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 57.4 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy: 57.7 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions: 4.2 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 97.5% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 120.0 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 8,260 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

51 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 24, Conservative and Unionist 14, Reform Derby 5, Independent / Other 4, Liberal Democrats 3, Reform UK 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 51 councillors, by ward

Carmel Ashby (Labour Party) — Abbey
Paul Hezelgrave (Labour Party) — Abbey
Sue Bonser (Labour Party) — Abbey
Ged Potter (Conservative and Unionist) — Allestree
Kieran Morgan-McGeehan (Independent / Other) — Allestree
Steve Hassall (Conservative and Unionist) — Allestree
Alan Graves (Reform UK) — Alvaston North
John Evans (Reform Derby) — Alvaston North
Kirk Kus (Reform Derby) — Alvaston North
Alan Lindsey (Reform Derby) — Alvaston South
Stephen Fowke (Reform Derby) — Alvaston South
Tim Prosser (Reform Derby) — Alvaston South
Cecile Wright (Labour Party) — Arboretum
Gulfraz Nawaz (Labour Party) — Arboretum
Shiraz Khan (Labour Party) — Arboretum
Hardyal Dhindsa (Labour Party) — Blagreaves
Saquib Amin (Labour Party) — Blagreaves
Sara Bolton (Labour Party) — Blagreaves
Jerry Pearce (Conservative and Unionist) — Chaddesden East
John Wright (Conservative and Unionist) — Chaddesden East
Neil Wilson (Labour Party) — Chaddesden North
Richard Hudson (Liberal Democrats) — Chaddesden North
Kathy Kozlowski (Labour Party) — Chaddesden West
Martin Rawson (Labour Party) — Chaddesden West
Celia Ingall (Independent / Other) — Chellaston & Shelton Lock
Philip Ingall (Independent / Other) — Chellaston & Shelton Lock
Stephen Lakin (Independent / Other) — Chellaston & Shelton Lock
Alison Martin (Labour Party) — Darley
Carmel Swan (Labour Party) — Darley
Martin Repton (Labour Party) — Darley
Ajit Atwal (Liberal Democrats) — Littleover
Emily Lonsdale (Labour Party) — Littleover
Lucy Care (Liberal Democrats) — Littleover
Gaurav Pandey (Conservative and Unionist) — Mackworth & New Zealand
John Whitby (Labour Party) — Mackworth & New Zealand
Ndukwe Onuoha (Labour Party) — Mackworth & New Zealand
Alison Holmes (Conservative and Unionist) — Mickleover
Matthew Holmes (Conservative and Unionist) — Mickleover
Miles Pattison (Conservative and Unionist) — Mickleover
Balbir Sandhu (Labour Party) — Normanton
Gurkiran Kaur (Labour Party) — Normanton
Jangir Khan (Labour Party) — Normanton
Freya Trewhella (Conservative and Unionist) — Oakwood
Jamie Mulhall (Conservative and Unionist) — Oakwood
Matthew Eyre (Conservative and Unionist) — Oakwood
Baggy Shanker (Labour Party) — Sinfin & Osmaston
Nadine Peatfield (Labour Party) — Sinfin & Osmaston
Sarah Chambers (Labour Party) — Sinfin & Osmaston
Christopher Poulter (Conservative and Unionist) — Spondon
Jonathan Smale (Conservative and Unionist) — Spondon
Nicola Roulstone (Conservative and Unionist) — Spondon

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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