Local Plan – how you can help shape community development

It’s all in the PLANNING

Climate change ✓ Nature recovery ✓ Sustainable communities ✓ Low carbon transport ✓ These are just a few of the big ticket challenges the National Park is facing, and the list goes on...

The planning process is vital in addressing such issues and works best when local authorities, local communities and developers work together creating effective partnerships to achieve positive outcomes. Planning matters: this is why, when we produce plans and policies, we ask everyone to take part in the consultation.

What matters to you?

We are currently reviewing the Peak District National Park Local Plan. It is a document we write and implement in close consultation with you.

We use the planning policies we develop in the Local Plan to make decisions on the hundreds of planning applications we receive each year. To make the right

Planning matters which is why everyone can take place in the consultation.

decisions we need your help to decide what goes into the Local Plan and that will guide development in the National Park over the next 20 years.

Please complete the survey at www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/localplan and find out more about the Local Plan review.

Q: What is a Local Plan?

A: It is a plan for the future development of the local area, drawn up by the Local Planning Authority – that’s the Peak District National Park Authority for this area.

Q: What does a Local Plan do?

A: It provides a positive vision for the future of the area and a framework for addressing housing needs and other economic, social and environmental priorities, and guides planning decisions.

More information: www.gov.uk/

guidance/local-plans

Top: Chatsworth Stickyard by Peak Architects.

Left: Design for an elegant living space, Hayfield, by John McCall Architects. Back Dane Cottage.

If you have a view on the future development of the UK’s first National Park, we want to hear from you.

Andrew McCloy, who chairs the National Park Authority, explains: “In producing the new Local Plan, we want to hear from you to help identify what we are doing right, things we can improve Andrew McCloy on and how we need to adapt to existing and new challenges in our role as guardians of the National Park.

“It’s important that we engage all parties in an open and forward-looking debate. Parish councils will be getting involved with this but we want as many people to join in as possible. Whether you are a resident, in a community group, run a business or you’re an employee, are a visitor or just love the landscape, we’d like YOU to take part in the survey to help shape the future of your National Park.

“You don’t need any prior knowledge of planning, but you will need an enthusiasm for helping the Peak District National Park flourish; a keenness to see its sustainable communities thrive and grow; and a desire to protect and conserve its natural beauty, heritage and landscape now and for future generations.”

Your views will help guide future planning decisions

“Your suggestions will help us ask the right questions and cover the correct topics as we update our policies in the Local Plan. And we’ll use these policies to assess and make decisions on planning applications.”

To complete the survey and find out more about the Local Plan review process, including timescales, background information and how to get involved, visit www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/localplan

Survey results will be published online. These will influence the next stage in the formal consultation, ‘Issues and Options’.

The Local Plan Review can:

• protect and conserve the natural beauty, heritage and landscape of our national park; • help us adapt to climate change; • support the right development in the right place; • support local affordable housing; • support rural farming and business; • support increased biodiversity.

The Local Plan Review can’t:

• provide access to funding; • address complex issues alone.