Derbyshire Times news bulletin 28th December

Derbyshire Times news bulletin with editor Phil Bramley

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00:00 Here's today's Derbyshire Times video bulletin.

00:02 Plans have been unveiled for the latest phase of a major housing development near Chesterfield.

00:07 Mallard Homes is bidding for planning consent to create new homes on the former avenue side

00:13 at Derby Road in Wingerwith. The proposal is for 14 semi-detached houses containing four

00:18 bedrooms and accommodation across three floors, plus a two-storey apartment building that will

00:22 house a number of flats. Outline planning permission for up to 489 homes at the

00:28 multi-phase development was granted by North East Derbyshire District Council back in 2014.

00:33 The first section of 252 properties built by Tilly Homes is now nearly complete.

00:39 Strata Homes is also seeking planning consent to enable construction work to begin on the

00:45 second phase of 217 homes. Both Mallard Homes and Strata Homes have each lodged a reserve

00:52 matters application with the District Council whose decision is pending. The former avenue

00:57 Cochin Works was cleaned up during a 15-year remediation process in readiness for the redevelopment.

01:02 A busy North Derbyshire supermarket that had to close for six hours yesterday has reopened.

01:09 Shoppers who visited Tesco at Bridge Street in Claycross yesterday had to scrap their shopping

01:14 plans after they were asked to leave the store. Tesco confirmed they'd had to close the store

01:19 yesterday afternoon due to an issue with their checkout system and had called engineers to the

01:23 site. The shop reopened to customers last night at around 6.30pm.