Idling plans for former Wirksworth cinema set for rejection two years after approval

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A Derbyshire council is set to scrap a decision allowing a former cinema to be converted into homes and a shop after years of inaction from a developer. Derbyshire Dales District Council officers are asking councillors to spike their approval of plans to turn the former 1930s cinema in St John’s Street, Wirksworth, into a shop and 11 apartments, after two years of idling in limbo.

This is due to the applicants, Mr D and Mr A Stone, owners of the long-standing current occupiers of the the builders’ merchant and hardware store Stones of Wirksworth, not signing a Section 106 agreement – sealing financial contributions to offset the scheme. Approval by the council’s planning committee in August 2022 had been on the condition that the applicants sign an agreement to provide affordable housing on the site and

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