Derbyshire Times news bulletin 28th March

Derbyshire Times news bulletin with editor Phil Bramley

Transcript

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

00:04Farmers descended on Derbyshire County Council's headquarters

00:07to protest over government changes to inheritance tax

00:10and plans for countryside developments

00:12which they fear could destroy the viability of family farming

00:15and pose a threat to food security.

00:18Tractors lined the driveway into County Hall off Bank Road in Matlock

00:22before a full council meeting

00:24and farmers met with Conservative Council leader Councillor Barry Lewis

00:27to share their feelings over the government's plans.

00:32The derelict skeleton of a former Derbyshire pub

00:35is set to be bulldozed and replaced with flats.

00:38Plans from H&H Property Developments

00:40would see the former Nelson Inn pub on High Street in Woodville

00:43demolished and replaced with apartments.

00:46South Derbyshire District Council planners

00:48have recommended that the scheme is approved at a meeting next week.

00:52A pub has sat on the site since 1880

00:55but archaeologists say the venue has no special historical significance

00:59which would warrant it gaining any protected status, a council report details.