The North East Derbyshire Council Planning Committee was scheduled to meet on 30 September 2025 to discuss a number of planning applications, including a major development of 180 dwellings in Wingerworth. The committee was also scheduled to discuss a retrospective application for an InPost parcel locker in Tupton, and part retrospective extensions to a property in Dronfield.

Here's a breakdown of the key items listed on the agenda:

Land North of Spindle Drive and East of Deerlands Road, Wingerworth

A full application for the erection of 180 dwellings, including access, landscaping, and infrastructure, at land north of Spindle Drive and east of Deerlands Road, Wingerworth, was up for discussion. This was listed as a major development.

The planning manager considered that the scale of the application and the site's location outside the settlement development limits of Wingerworth required the application to be considered by the Planning Committee. Councillor Lee Hartshorne, Chair of the Council & Chair of Planning Committee, also called the application in, citing concerns about housing density and the effect on local infrastructure such as schools and doctors' surgeries. Councillor Hartshorne also raised concerns about surface water run-off.

The application site is approximately 7ha of pasture with associated hedgerows. A tributary of Tricket Brook runs in the ditch to the south of the site. The site is located outside the settlement development limits for Wingerworth and within a secondary Area of Multiple Environmental Sensitivity.

The site was granted outline planning permission for residential development in 2018, but the permission was not implemented.

Wingerworth Parish Council objected to the application for several reasons, including that the site lies outside of the Wingerworth settlement boundary, that Wingerworth has had more than its share of development in recent years, and that the application is contrary to policy W2 in the Wingerworth Neighbourhood Plan as it would have an adverse impact on the local community, existing infrastructure and highway network.

Derbyshire County Council Highways had no objection, subject to conditions and financial obligations.

NEDDC Housing noted that the 2024 Housing needs assessment identifies an annual provision of 290 affordable rent units and 66 affordable home ownership units to satisfy demand in North East Derbyshire, and that the proposal for 40% of the units on this site to be for affordable housing would help to address the affordable housing need in the District.

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust noted that the application was originally submitted prior to mandatory 10% net gain and therefore a 10% net gain is not required for habitats, hedgerows and watercourses.

The report pack stated that the main recommendation was to approve the application, subject to a legal agreement and conditions.

Unit 5, Ankerbold Road, Old Tupton, Chesterfield

The committee was scheduled to discuss a retrospective application for siting an InPost Parcel Locker at Unit 5, Ankerbold Road, Old Tupton.

Councillor David Hancock had requested that the application be considered at Planning Committee on the basis of highway safety concerns.

The application site comprises land forming part of the frontage of Unit 5 Ankerbold Road, which is a commercial unit with a current use as garden supplies sales yard and office. The site is situated within the defined Settlement Development Limits for Tupton.

The parcel locker measures 0.9m x 2.5m, with a further overhanging canopy extending approximately 0.75m beyond the front elevation, and has an overall height of approximately 2.4m. The locker's front elevation comprises a control screen and lockers for extra small, small, medium and large boxes. The lockers operate on a self-service basis and can be accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The committee had previously considered this application at the meeting on 29 July 2025, and deferred the application to allow for further assessment of the highway safety impacts arising as a consequence of the parcel locker, specifically requesting that Officers request a Traffic Impact Assessment from the applicant.

In response to this request, the applicant submitted a document titled Transport & Deliveries Statement, which established the average collections/ drop offs occurring within a 14-day period. The data provided sets out that there had been an average of 22 customer parcel collections/ drop offs per day over the 14 day period, and a single daily collection/drop off has been undertaken by a courier van.

The report pack stated that the main recommendation was to grant permission, subject to conditions.

62 Hilltop Road, Dronfield

The committee was scheduled to discuss a part retrospective application for single storey rear extensions, a two storey side extension and alterations to existing openings at 62 Hilltop Road, Dronfield. This was a resubmission of previously approved application 24/00766/FLH.

Councillor William Jones requested that the application be considered by members of planning committee, citing significant loss of privacy and amenity of neighbouring properties, failure to meet the good design requirements of Policy SDC12, and failure to comply with para's 3.11,12,13 & 14 of the Successful Places Interim Planning Guidance.

The application site is a detached bungalow located on the southwestern side of Hilltop Road, within the settlement development limits for Dronfield. Residential properties adjoin the site to the east and west. To the rear, beyond the residential garden, is a paddock area which is subject to a current application for three detached bungalows (25/00337/FL).

The plans had been amended throughout the application to accurately reflect the development that has been constructed on site.

Dronfield Town Council objected to the application, stating that the retrospective planning application significantly deviates from the previously approved plans under application 24/00766/FLH, and that the original approval was granted on the basis of a revised dormer design, which reduced its scale to approximately two-thirds of the roof width, set back from the rear wall and aligned with the ridge line, and that construction undertaken does not reflect the approved design.

DCC Highways had no objection.

The report pack stated that the main recommendation was to conditionally approve the application, subject to conditions.

Planning Appeals - Lodged and Determined

The committee was scheduled to receive a report to inform them of the planning appeals that had been lodged and determined.

The following appeals had been lodged:

• Mr And Mrs Johnson - Proposed 2 storey front extension with PD Right A,B,C,D and E removed at Rosings, Hundall, Apperknowle (25/00223/FLH)
• Mr Joseph Allen - Erection of a self-build two-storey detached dwelling with basement and integral garage (resubmission of withdrawn application 24/00428/FL) at Land Adjacent 62 Gosforth Lane, Dronfield (25/00116/FL)
• Mr D Atkinson - Retrospective application for retention of garage and store at Marsh Green Hall, Marsh Green Lane, Ashover (25/00072/FL)
• Mr D Atkinson - Application for Lawful Development Certificate for the existing Use of land for domestic garden, drives and yarding and for any purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse under Section 191 of the TCPA 1990 (Amended Title) at Marsh Green Hall, Marsh Green Lane, Ashover (24/00828/LDC)

The following Enforcement appeal had been allowed:

• Mr C Denton - Demolition of an agricultural barn and the construction of a new building used as a dwellinghouse at The Long Barn, Barlow Lees Lane, Barlow (24/00099/OD)

The following appeals had been dismissed:

• Mr Tim Shepley - Retention of timber gazebo (Affecting the setting of a Listed Building)(Conservation Area) at Woodthorpe Hall, Fanshaw Gate Lane, Holmesfield (24/00461/FL)
• Mr Nick Horsley - Retention of an agricultural building (affecting a Public Right of Way) at Springwood Farm, Cowley Lane, Holmesfield (25/00111/FL)
• Mr Mark Pickard - Prior approval application for the change of use of the existing agricultural building to provide two dwellings (Affecting a Public Footpath) at Barns And Land On The South West End Of Gill Lane, Grassmoor (24/00692/CUPDMB)
• Mr Mark Pickard - Prior approval application for the change of use of the existing agricultural building to provide one dwelling (Affecting a Public Right of Way) at Barns And Land On The South West End Of Gill Lane, Grassmoor (24/00694/CUPDMB)
• Mr And Mrs Johnson - Proposed 2 storey front extension with PD Right A,B,C,D and E removed at Rosings, Hundall, Apperknowle (25/00223/FLH)
• Mr M Houltby - Demolition of existing garage and proposed new annex to Nether Birchitt Farm Cottage (Affecting the setting of a listed building) at Nether Birchitt Farm Cottage, Sheffield Road, Dronfield (24/00610/FLH)

No appeals had been withdrawn.