2022
Approved
Ginger Cottage 125 Derby Road Denby Ripley Derbyshire DE5 8RA
Replacement garage/store
Geoff Cox Car Sales, Geoff Cox Car Sales, 120 - 122 Derby Road, Denby, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 8LG Data via plota.co.uk
Pending
AVA/2026/0311
Description
Advertisement consent for the installation of 2 no. 65-inch portrait digital display screens and associated works Data via plota.co.uk
Last checked
Decision outlook
Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 144.
Day 144, past the statutory target. 89% of signs and adverts in Amber Valley are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 24 Aug 2026.
Day 14488 days past the 56-day target
67%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
10,255decided in the last year
Plota live figures for signs and adverts decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent signs and adverts in Amber Valley to go on. Amber Valley decision record →
Site constraints 12
Green belt: Derby and Nottingham
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Coal mining development high risk area
Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.
From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.
Public footpath about 25 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 4; National infrastructure project about 189 m away: Chesterfield to Willington, at pre-application; Flood defence about 26 m from the postcode pin (wall); Inside the Denby Bottles built-up area; Conservation area about 98 m away: Kilburn; Priority habitat about 35 m away: Lowland meadows; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
No scheduled monument at the site
Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.
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Other new applications on this street
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Rear extension, dormer roof room with staircase access and associated works
Historical activity at this location
6 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
Within ~100m
Nearby activity
2022
Approved
Ginger Cottage 125 Derby Road Denby Ripley Derbyshire DE5 8RA
Replacement garage/store
2020
Approved
Fern Court Derby Road Denby Ripley Derbyshire DE5 8LG
Change of use from B1 to E(d) formally use class D2 for the ground floor and upper floor…
2020
Approved
Fern Court Derby Road Denby Ripley Derbyshire DE5 8LG
Change of use from B1 to E(d) formally use class D2 for the ground floor and upper floor…
2019
Approved
Fern Court Derby Road Denby Ripley Derbyshire DE5 8LG
Change of use from B1 to D2 for the ground floor and upper floor, and alterations to acce…
2019
Approved
Fern Court Derby Road Denby Ripley Derbyshire DE5 8LG
Change of use from B1 to D2 for the ground floor and upper floor, and alterations to acce…
Amber Valley
Planning Authority Score
7.3/10
Good
#50 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions
Amber Valley is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #74 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.
More permissive than most councils
98% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application.
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Amber Valley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
96%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #6 of 296
98%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #9 of 296
75%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #74 of 296
41%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #157 of 296
88%
Minor dwellings approved
77 decided (1-9 homes)
94%
Major dwellings approved
16 decided (10+ homes)
96%
Change of use approved
48 decided
657
Total decisions
26 refused in the year to March 2026