The Ada Belfield Centre and Belper Library

The new care home and library is being built on the former Thorntons factory site in Derwent Street. The project for Derbyshire City Council will feature 40 private rooms and will be built to the latest dementia-friendly standards.
Philanthropist and magistrate Ada Belfield was an alderman on Derbyshire County Council from 1940 to 1970. She was chairman of the former Belper Urban District Council, on which she served from 1949 to 1955.
She was associated with the Derby and Derbyshire Association for the Deaf and the Derby and Derbyshire Association for the Blind. In 1962 she was awarded an MBE.