Chesterfield and District Civic Society

Registered Charity number 507458

Category: General

  • Response to Derbyshire County Council’s proposed extension of the Hipper Valley Trail

    The download below is the Chesterfield and District Civic Society’s response to Derbyshire County Council’s plans for an east-west walking and cycling route for Chesterfield – an extension and re-work of the so-called Hipper Valley Trail. Costed at just over £1.6 million the route will go from the A619 junction with Holymoor Road, along Chatsworth…

  • CHESTERFIELD TRAIN STATION MASTERPLAN

    Plans to transform the area between the town centre and Chesterfield train station were out for public consultation, closing on 8 March 2021. Amongst a number of other local organisations the civic society has submitted its views on the scheme, which has been put together by Chesterfield Borough Council, working with AECOM and Whittam Cox…

  • Covid Lockdown and Street Closures

    The latest lock down has had a considerable impact on the centre of Chesterfield in both accessibility and appearance. This prompted a consultation amongst members of the Civic Society which resulted in the following communication to Bridget Gould the DCC member responsible for the policy in Chesterfield, and it is published below for information. This…

  • Wingerworth Hall

    Despite the coronavirus the work of the society continues, and our chairman has recently been involved in advising the owner of a local property on the contesting of a planning application affecting a listed building. Members can read more in their newsletter, and a magazine article on the issue can be seen below. It can…

  • Committee Meetings Start again

    It will take a long time before ‘normality’ is resumed, and it’s unlikely we are going to see any public meetings before the end of the first quarter of 2021. However, the Committee met this month at the St Thomas’s Centre, and plans to continue doing so while the current rules on social interaction remain…

  • Hasland Hall Estate

    Introduction This note is being mounted on the Civic Society website to provide some historical background to the planning application, currently under consideration by Chesterfield Borough Council, by the owners of Manor Farm House, 118 The Green, Hasland, Chesterfield, to re-roof the property. The Civic Society would prefer to see traditional Derbyshire stone flags used…

  • Hidden Heritage Secret Streams 25th March 2020

    A talk by Rachel Walker, Project Manager, Don Catchment Rivers Trust at 2.30pm in the Suite at St Thomas’ Centre Chatsworth Road Don Catchment Rivers Trust are an independent charitable trust, aiming to improve rivers in the catchment. They are currently working on a project in and around Chesterfield, which includes volunteering to help clean…

  • THE CHESTERFIELD HOTEL

    Chesterfield and District Civic Society A future for the site of the Chesterfield Hotel This post can be downloaded as a PDF here Background The Chesterfield Hotel was built in 1876–7, a few years after the Midland Railway rebuilt its station at Chesterfield on its present site (a short distance to the north of the…

  • Annual General Meeting

    The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at the St. Thomas’s Centre on Thursday September 5th. The Chairman and Secretary presented their reports, and the Committee reconfirmed with the following changes. Daniel Botham has stepped down, and Darrell Clark will now take his place at the monthly meeting. The brief meeting was followed…

  • NOTICE OF CIVIC SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

    The Annual General meeting will be held on Thursday 5th Sept. at 7.30pm in the Studio at the St.Thomas Centre, Chatsworth Road.  All members and any prospective members are invited to attend. Our talk is from Dr. Hugh Ellis on ‘Chesterfield: Cradle of the Garden City Movement’.  Our distinguished speaker is the Policy Director of the…