Councillor Denton is a current Liberal Democrat representative for Darton East and has served on the Council since May 2022.

Brought up in Yorkshire but spent most of his life working away. He has held senior management roles in the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, America and Canada.

As a proven business leader his aspirations are to bring some of this experience to the Town Hall to challenge and develop the council’s plans for the town. He has been known as a passionate advocate for the causes that he promotes and has a reputation for getting things done.

He moved to Darton 3 years ago in order to be closer to his elderly parents and really enjoy living here. Since moving into the area he has been active in many community groups from the Police and Community Trust to Greenspace and Voice for Darton.

He led campaigns to control the expansion of housing developments that are turning our villages and wildlife into urban conurbations and has been vocal in raising issues around our roads, be it speeding, inappropriate access or the quality of the surfaces.

He is married to Yvonne, a regulatory manager who is also passionate about our area. They have a dog, Pepper, who came from the rescue and may be seen  walking around Darton Lane on most days.

Dickie loves the outdoors and watching sports, he is such a big football fan that he actually wrote a book about it called ‘Feeling Blue’.

He used to run marathons but know settles for golf.