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Derbyshire: 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.

Derbyshire County Council: County (upper tier), England, West Midlands; part of the EMCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a county council. ONS code E10000007.

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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 Derbyshire for 2026–27: £1,708.99. 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 recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

Corfield CofE Infant School (primary) — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 January 2027
Corfield CofE Infant School (primary) — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: for academy; proposed date 31 December 2026

In the last twelve months: 17 opened (11 academy converter, 3 new provision, 1 academy free school, 1 reason not recorded, 1 fresh start), 14 closed (11 academy converter, 1 closure, 1 result of amalgamation/merger, 1 fresh start)

Abbotsholme School — closed; reason recorded: closure, 22 June 2026
Arkwright Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 October 2025
Burbage Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 November 2025
Buxton Infant School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Buxton Junior School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Fairfield Infant and Nursery School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 May 2026
Harpur Hill Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 April 2026
Heage Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 28 February 2026
OneSchool Global Uk Nottingham Campus — closed; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger, 13 April 2026
Ridgeway Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 April 2026
Ripley Junior School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 November 2025
Simmondley Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 July 2026
Stubbin Wood School — closed; reason recorded: fresh start, 31 August 2026
Sudbury Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 28 February 2026
Arkwright Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 November 2025
Bluebank School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 23 January 2026
Burbage Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 December 2025
Buxton Infant School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Buxton Junior School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Drakelow Park Flying High Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy free school, 1 September 2026
Fairfield Infant and Nursery School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 June 2026
Harpur Hill Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 May 2026
Heage Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 March 2026
Include-West Bars — open; reason recorded: new provision, 4 August 2026
Meadowbrook School — open, 3 September 2026
Oaklands Manor School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 18 December 2025
Ridgeway Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 May 2026
Ripley Junior School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 December 2025
Simmondley Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 August 2026
Stubbin Wood School — open; reason recorded: fresh start, 1 September 2026
Sudbury Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 March 2026

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 Derbyshire reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Derbyshire: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£723.3 million
Highways and transport services	£25.0 million
Children's social care	£188.8 million
Adult social care	£394.8 million
Public health	£59.2 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£2.3 million
Cultural and related services	£11.5 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£53.6 million
Planning and development services	£2.8 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£27.5 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£1,488.8 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).

Derbyshire in numbers

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

Total population: 822,377 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 45 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £23,900 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £631 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 22.8% 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: 2.7% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £238,228 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 6.3 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy: 60.5 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: 60.5 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: 9.1 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 88.1% 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: 119.2 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: 30,150 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

64 seats in 2026. Run by: Reform UK, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Reform UK 42, Conservative and Unionist 10, Green Party (E&W) 3, Independent / Other 3, Labour Party 3, Liberal Democrats 3.

Next scheduled council election: 3 May 2029.

All 64 councillors, by ward

Stuart Bent (Reform UK) — Alfreton & Somercotes
Rachael Hatchett (Green Party (E&W)) — Alport & Duffield
Steve Bull (Conservative and Unionist) — Ashbourne South
Alan Graves (Reform UK) — Aston
Alasdair Sutton (Conservative and Unionist) — Bakewell
Kevin Harper (Reform UK) — Barlborough & Clowne
Carol Wood (Reform UK) — Bolsover
Carol Hart (Conservative and Unionist) — Breadsall & West Hallam
John Lawson (Reform UK) — Breaston
Richard Smith (Reform UK) — Brimington
Melandra Smith (Reform UK) — Buxton North & East
Linda Grooby (Conservative and Unionist) — Buxton South & West
Nigel Gourlay (Conservative and Unionist) — Chapel & Hope Valley
Stephen Reed (Reform UK) — Clay Cross & Tupton
Darran Furness (Reform UK) — Codnor, Aldercar, Langley Mill & Loscoe
Susan Hobson (Conservative and Unionist) — Derwent Valley
Nick Adams (Reform UK) — Dovedale & Ashbourne North
Alex Dale (Conservative and Unionist) — Dronfield & Unstone
Angelique Foster (Independent / Other) — Dronfield Woodhouse & Walton
Joss Barnes (Reform UK) — Dunston
Jamie Hodgson (Reform UK) — Eckington & Coal Aston
Roy Hallett (Reform UK) — Elmton with Creswell & Whitwell
Jason Isherwood (Reform UK) — Etherow
Martyn Ford (Conservative and Unionist) — Etwall & Findern
Jean Wharmby (Conservative and Unionist) — Glossop North
Damien Greenhalgh (Labour Party) — Glossop South
David Harvey (Reform UK) — Hardwick
Lewis Whitbread (Reform UK) — Hasland & Rother
Peter Mathews (Reform UK) — Heanor
Sam Redfern (Reform UK) — Hilton
Lian Pizzey (Green Party (E&W)) — Horsley
Richard Hatfield (Reform UK) — Ilkeston Central
Dan Price (Reform UK) — Ilkeston North
Simon Mabbott (Reform UK) — Ilkeston South & Kirk Hallam
David Elsdon (Reform UK) — Killamarsh & Renishaw
Alex Millward (Reform UK) — Linacre & Loundsley Green
Amy Wheelton (Independent / Other) — Linton
Owen Ferron (Reform UK) — Long Eaton North
Jodie Brown (Reform UK) — Long Eaton South
Sue Burfoot (Liberal Democrats) — Matlock
Charlotte Hill (Reform UK) — Melbourne & Woodville
Anne Clarke (Labour Party) — New Mills & Hayfield
Emma Monkman (Labour Party) — North Belper
Darren Muizelaar (Reform UK) — North Wingfield, Pilsley & Morton
Matthew Benfield (Reform UK) — Repton & Stenson
Tony Wilson (Reform UK) — Ripley East
Mark Chambers (Reform UK) — Ripley West & Crich
Wayne Major (Conservative and Unionist) — Sandiacre
Paul Maginnis (Reform UK) — Sawley
Sarah Reaney (Reform UK) — Shirebrook & Pleasley
Paul Parkin (Reform UK) — Shirland & Wingerworth South
Gez Kinsella (Green Party (E&W)) — South Belper & Holbrook
Nephi Somerville (Reform UK) — South Normanton & Pinxton
Ed Fordham (Liberal Democrats) — Spire
Dawn Taylor (Reform UK) — Staveley
Mark Cliff (Reform UK) — Staveley North & Whittington
Robert Reaney (Reform UK) — Sutton
Martin Bromley (Reform UK) — Swadlincote East
Paul Oxberry (Reform UK) — Swadlincote South
Joseph Turrell (Reform UK) — Swadlincote West
Charlotte Gates (Reform UK) — Swanwick & Riddings
Tom Snowdon (Liberal Democrats) — Walton, Brampton & Boythorpe
Ruth George (Independent / Other) — Whaley Bridge
Adrian Hunter (Reform UK) — Wirksworth

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.

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