Weighmans Cottage Middleton Road Wirksworth Derbyshire DE4 4PJ Data via plota.co.uk

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.