PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK

LOCAL PLAN

Adopted March 2001

Contents

The Local Plan:

Chapter 1	Introduction
Chapter 2	Development Control Practice
Chapter 3	Conservation
Chapter 4	Housing
Chapter 5	Shops, Services and Community Facilities
Chapter 6	Economy
Chapter 7	Recreation and Tourism
Chapter 8	Utilities
Chapter 9	Minerals
Chapter 10	Waste Management
Chapter 11	Transport
Chapter 12	Bakewell

Appendices
1.		Car Parking Standards
For information only:
2.		The Meaning of 'Development'
3.		Structure Plan Policies
4.		Definition of the Natural Zone
5.		Local Plan Settlements Matrix
6.		Conservation Areas
7.		Sites on the National Register of Parks and Gardens
8.		List of Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the National Park
9.		Statutory Wildlife Designations
10.		Meaning of Terms Used in Policy LC19
11.		Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987
12.		Highway Authorities and other Providers and Regulators of Transport Infrastructure and Services
Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Statement of Publicity and Consultation Proposals Map Proposals Map Sheet Numbers Inset Maps List of Policies and Proposals

Conservation
LC1:	Conserving and managing the Natural Zone
LC2:	Designated Local Plan Settlements
LC3:	Local Plan Settlement limits
LC4:	Design, layout and landscaping
LC5:	Conservation Areas
LC6:	Listed Buildings
LC7:	Demolition of Listed Buildings
LC8:	Conversion of buildings of historic or vernacular merit
LC9:	Important parks and gardens
LC10:	Shop fronts
LC11:	Outdoor advertising
LC12:	Agricultural or forestry workers' dwellings
LC13:	Agricultural or forestry operational development
LC14:	Farm diversification
LC15:	Historic and cultural heritage sites and features
LC16:	Archaeological sites and features
LC17:	Sites, features or species of wildlife, geological or geomorphological importance
LC18:	Safeguarding, recording and enhancing nature conservation interests when development is acceptable
LC19:	Assessing the nature conservation importance of sites not subject to statutory designation
LC20:	Protecting trees, woodlands or other landscape features put at risk by development
LC21:	Pollution and disturbance
LC22:	Surface water run-off
LC23:	Flood risk areas
LC24:	Contaminated land
LC25:	Unstable land

Housing
LH1:	Meeting local needs for affordable housing
LH2:	Definition of people with a local qualification
LH3:	Replacement of agricultural occupancy conditions
LH4:	Extensions and alterations to dwellings
LH5:	Replacement dwellings
LH6:	Conversion of outbuildings within the curtilages of existing dwellings to ancillary residential uses
LH7:	Gypsy caravan sites

Shops, Services and Community Facilities
LS1:	Retailing and services in Local Plan Settlements
LS2:	Change of use from a shop to any other use
LS3:	Retail development outside Local Plan Settlements
LS4:	Community facilities
LS5:	Safeguarding sites for community facilities

Economy
LE1:	Employment sites in the Hope Valley
LE2:	Exceptional permission for Class B1 employment uses
LE3:	Home working
LE4:	Industrial and business expansion
LE5:	Retail uses in industrial and business areas
LE6:	Design, layout and neighbourliness of employment sites, including haulage depots

Recreation and Tourism
LR1:	Recreation and tourism development
LR2:	Community recreation sites and facilities
LR3:	Touring camping and caravan sites
LR4:	Holiday chalet developments
LR5:	Holiday occupancy of camping and caravan sites
LR6:	Holiday occupancy of self-catering accommodation
LR7:	Facilities for keeping and riding horses

Utilities
LU1:	Development that requires new or upgraded utility service infrastructure
LU2:	New and upgraded utility services
LU3:	Development close to utility installations
LU4:	Renewable energy generation
LU5:	Telecommunications infrastructure
LU6:	Restoration of utility infrastructure sites

Minerals
LM1:	Assessing and minimising the environmental impact of mineral activity
LM2:	Reclamation of mineral sites to an appropriate after-use
LM3:	Provision of aggregate minerals
LM4:	New aggregate extraction
LM5:	10-year landbank for aggregates
LM6:	Building stone and roofing slate
LM7:	Limestone removal from opencast vein mineral sites
LM8:	Small scale calcite workings
LM9:	Ancillary mineral development
LM10:	Producing secondary and recycled materials

Waste Management
LW1:	Sustainable waste management
LW2:	Assessing and minimising the environmental impact of waste management facilities
LW3:	Reclamation of waste disposal sites to an acceptable after-use
LW4:	Household waste recycling centres
LW5:	Recycling of construction and demolition waste
LW6:	Waste transfer stations and waste processing facilities
LW7:	Disposal of waste from construction or restoration projects
LW8:	Disposal of domestic, commercial, industrial and other non-inert waste by landfill at new sites
LW9:	Disposal of inert, domestic, commercial, industrial and other non-inert waste by landraising

Transport
LT1:	Implementing the road hierarchy: the main vehicular network
LT2:	Implementing the road hierarchy: very minor roads
LT3:	Cross-Park traffic: road and rail
LT4:	Safeguarding land for new road schemes
LT5:	Public transport: route enhancement
LT6:	Railway construction
LT7:	Public transport and the pattern of development
LT8:	Public transport from Baslow to Bakewell and Chatsworth
LT9:	Freight transport and lorry parking
LT10:	Private non-residential (PNR) parking
LT11:	Residential parking
LT12:	Park and ride
LT13:	Traffic restraint measures
LT14:	Parking strategy and parking charges
LT15:	Proposals for car parks
LT16:	Coach parking
LT17:	Cycle parking
LT18:	Design criteria for transport infrastructure
LT19:	Mitigation of wildlife severance effects
LT20:	Public rights of way
LT21:	Provision for cyclists, horse riders and pedestrians
LT22:	Access to sites and buildings for people with a mobility difficulty
LT23:	Air transport

Bakewell
LB1:	Bakewell's Development Boundary
LB2:	Important Open Spaces in Bakewell
LB3:	Traffic management in Bakewell
LB4:	Car, coach and lorry parking in Bakewell
LB5:	Public transport in Bakewell
LB6:	Sites for general industry or business development in Bakewell
LB7:	Redevelopment at Lumford Mill
LB8:	Non-conforming uses in Bakewell
LB9:	Shopping in Bakewell
LB10:	Bakewell Stall market
LB11:	Community, sports and arts facilities in Bakewell

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