Category: News

  • Chesterfield Heritage Open Days 7- 9 September

    Visit Chesterfield’s Historic Churches and Chapels

  • Thornfield

    CHESTERFIELD AND DISTRICT CIVIC SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE Civic Society urges Council to save historic building Chesterfield and District Civic Society has written to the Borough Council asking them not to allow the demolition of what the society believes is the last building in the town associated with the Chesterfield Canal. Thornfield, a stone-built Georgian house of the…

  • The Civic Society at Saturday’s Fair .

    The Civic Society stand at the  the Chesterfield and District Family History Society event last Saturday . The display was originally produced in 1991 , and attracted considerable interest !  

  • Permission to demolish The Shrubberies is granted

    Though there was in reality nothing the Council could do to prevent it , it is still sad to report that permission to demolish was effectively granted at the Planning Meeting on the April 3rd .

  • Chesterfield Borough Council Local Plan

    The Council updated the Local Plan Core Strategy, dating  from 2013 , this January and the Civic Society has commented on it .  The covering letter and the link to the response are found below .   CHESTERFIELD AND DISTRICT CIVIC SOCIETY 9 Owen Falls Avenue, Chesterfield S41 0FR P.I. Staniforth Esq. Planning and Development…