PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY

Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas)
Act 1990

Conservation Areas within the Peak District National Park

Notice is hereby given under section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, that the Peak District National Park Authority has determined that parts of Abney, Froggatt, Grindleford, Litton Mill, Millers Dale, Peak Forest and Old Dam, in the county of Derbyshire, are areas of special architectural or historic interest the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance and has accordingly designated these areas as Conservation Areas.
  The effect of the designation of the Conservation Area is as follows:

  1. Conservation Area consent will now be required for the demolition of all unlisted buildings (other than excepted buildings) within the Conservation Area (separate consent is required in respect of works to or which affect listed buildings);
  2. Planning applications for development which would in the opinion of the local planning authority affect the character or appearance of the Conservation Area, must be given publicity and representations received as a result of the publicity must be taken into account in determining the application;
  3. It becomes an offence subject to certain exceptions to cut down, top, lop, uproot, wilfully damage or wilfully destroy any tree witin the Conservation Area except with the consent of the local planning authority;
  4. The local planning authority are now under a duty to formulate and publish proposals for the preservation and enhancement of the Conservation Area.

  A map of the Conservation Areas may be inspected, free of charge, during normal office hours at the office of the Peak District National Park Authority, Aldern House, Baslow Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1AE.
K. M. Francis, Secretary and Solicitor Aldern House, Baslow Road,
  Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1AE.
10th September 1998.