- Safety and security – this could include projects which help to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour, for example.
- High streets, heritage and regeneration – this could include projects which would enhance the town, making the place more attractive and accessible to residents, businesses and visitors.
- Transport and connectivity – this could include projects which support improved access to the town centre, including work to support greener modes of travel, as well as public transport options.
Businesses to help shape future of Chesterfield
Innovative approaches to workplace inclusivity
- Actively seeking out and considering diverse perspectives.
- Promoting equity.
- Ensuring all team members have the opportunity to succeed.
Showcase exceptional property and construction firms at the East Midlands Bricks Awards 2024
- Most active agent
- Commercial development of the year
- Responsible business of the year
- Residential development of the year
- Developer of the year
- Deal of the year
- Architects of the year
- Excellence in design
- Sustainable development of the year
- Contractor of the year
- Overall winner (this award cannot be entered, with the winner, and recipient of a year of marketing/publicity worth £20,000, selected from those nominated)
Nominations end Thursday 5th September
Find out who last year’s winners were here.






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- Enshrining in law measures to clamp down on big businesses with poor payment practices towards their smaller suppliers.
- Improving small businesses’ ability to access finance, including closing loopholes in protections for those giving personal guarantees.
- Making a 33 per cent SME statutory public procurement target, increasing the involvement of small businesses in taxpayer-funded projects.
- Fundamentally reform business rates to help small businesses in all sectors.
- Rule out increases in tax on dividends for directors of limited companies and National Insurance for the self-employed.
- Restore the small profits threshold for corporation tax to the previous level of £250,000 and pledge not to increase the small profits rate.
- Automatically increase the employment allowance with the National Living Wage.
- Maintain current co-investment rules to back small business apprenticeships.
- Reintroduce universal work experience into secondary schools.
- Increase the number of start-up loans offered by 5,000.
- Create a new ‘new enterprise allowance’ for those out of work looking to start a business.
- Make it easier for people working for themselves to get a mortgage and save for their retirement.
- Introduce a new Small Housebuilder Strategy, to ensure sufficient capacity to achieve ambitious housebuilding targets.
- Commit to a target that at least half of all direct Government funding of private Research and Development (R&D) goes to SMEs.
- Provide consumer-style protections for smaller businesses when it comes to the energy market.