The Bolsover District Council Planning Committee is scheduled to meet on 1 October 2025 to discuss several planning applications, including a large residential development, a mixed-use development on Bolsover Business Park, and the conversion of a former club into flats. They will also consider the demolition of existing garages to extend a car park.

Applications for determination

Residential development off Langwith Road, Bolsover

The committee will consider application 22/00478/FUL for a residential development of 217 homes on land between St Lawrence Avenue and Rotherham Road, north of Langwith Road. The application, submitted by Mrs Marlena Przewuska of Unit 3 Turnberry Park Cramphorn House LS27 7LE United Kingdom, is for the construction of 2, 3, and 4-bedroom properties, along with associated infrastructure, landscaping, and open space.

The planning officer's report notes that the site forms part of a housing allocation in the adopted Local Plan. Amendments have been made to the plans, including a reduction in the number of dwellings, an increase in the size of the attenuation basin, and more public open space.

The report notes that a key consideration is that the scheme is unable to viably provide all of the developer contributions usually sought by the council. However, the scheme will provide 10% affordable housing on-site and developer contributions amounting to £850,000. The report concludes:

On balance, given that the scheme otherwise represents a planned approach to sustainable development and will deliver housing to meet the District's housing needs, including policy compliant levels of affordable housing and towards critical infrastructure to satisfy Local Plan Policy recommendation to grant planning permission is made.

Bolsover Business Park mixed-use development

The committee will also discuss application 23/00180/OUT, an outline planning application for a mixed-use development at Bolsover Business Park on Woodhouse Lane. The applicant, Welbeck Estates Limited, is seeking permission for up to 6,500 sqm of employment units, retention of existing 2,270 sqm offices, 2 retail units (total gross area up to 3,200 sqm, one being for discount food retail), and a drive-thru take-out unit, including associated parking, infrastructure, and access.

This is an update report following a resolution to approve the application at a previous meeting, subject to a Section 106 agreement¹. The update report notes that there are some additional title holders within the red edged application site area who were not directly notified when the application was made. Notice has now been served on all 'owners', namely Yorkshire Water Services Ltd, Derbyshire County Council, Aztec Oils Ltd, Bolsover Woodlands Enterprises and National Grid Electricity Distribution, giving them 21 days to make any representations.

The applicant is also seeking a longer period to submit the reserved matters² to allow for phasing that would be more responsive to market demand as the development progresses. The applicant seeks to replace previously recommended condition 1, which gives three years for the approval of all reserved matters and two years from the final approval of the reserved matters for the development to be begun, with the following condition:

Applications for approval of the reserved matters shall be made for Phase 1 not later than the expiration of three years from the date of this permission. Applications for approval of the reserved matters for all subsequent phases identified in the approved Phasing Plan shall be made not later than the expiration of eight years from the date of this permission. The development of each phase shall be begun not later than the expiration of two years from the date of the final approval of the reserved matters relating to that phase.

New Middle Club, Whitwell, conversion to residential flats

The committee will also review application 25/00179/FUL for the conversion of the New Middle Club, Welbeck Street, Whitwell, into 9 residential flats.

This is an update report following a decision to defer the application at the last planning committee meeting. At that time, councillors felt that an investigation should take place to explore the removal of any defensible space to facilitate additional car parking for the entire site and to clarify arrangements for the allocation of the spaces and management of the car park.

Since that time a revised parking layout has been received which provides three additional car parking spaces (13 in total). This has been achieved by removing the defensible space forward of flat 4 and by relocating the bin storage area to the eastern boundary of the site.

The revised car parking plan clarifies the exact spaces that would be allocated to each flat. The two two-bed units would each have two dedicated spaces. The one-bed units would have one dedicated space and there would be two visitor spaces.

Whitwell Parish Council, the Highway Authority, the District Council's Waste & Recycling Manager and local residents have been re-consulted for a 14-day period.

St Helens Church Hall, East Pinxton, demolition and replacement

The Planning Committee will consider application 25/00293/FUL for the demolition of the existing St Helens Church Hall and the erection of a new single-storey church hall.

Garage site on Worksop Road, Whitwell Common, demolition and change of use

Finally, the committee will discuss application 25/00307/FREG3 for the demolition of existing garages and change of use from green space to extend an existing car parking facility at a garage site to the rear of 1-5 Worksop Road, Whitwell Common.

The application seeks permission to demolish 6 existing prefabricated garages, re-surface the existing parking area and extend it by 9.5 sqm, marking out the resulting parking area with 14 spaces, including one disabled parking space. The proposal also includes repairs to an existing low retaining wall and installation of a 12.6m long crash barrier at a height of 900mm along the front of one of the rows of parking spaces created.

The works are to be carried out on the part of the site which is used for parking and contains the garages with a small 1m deep, 9.5m long extension of the parking/manoeuvring area into what is currently part of the grassed recreation area.

Other items on the agenda

The agenda for the meeting also includes:

• Apologies for absence
• Urgent items of business
• Declarations of interest
• To consider the minutes of the last meeting held on 3 September 2025³.