The Pump House Blundestone Lane Longway Bank Whatstandwell Derbyshire DE4 5HU Data via plota.co.uk

26/00829/FUL - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Proposed extension and alterations Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

30 Jul 2026

✓

Consultation

31 Jul 2026

✓

Approved

24 Sept 2026

Approved on 24 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 7 Oct 2026

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Site constraints 5

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 37 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Derbyshire Dales
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Postcode: DE4 5HU
Received: 30 Jul 2026
Validated: 30 Jul 2026
Ward: Wirksworth
Parish: Wirksworth
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 24 Sept 2026
Decision: Granted with Conditions
Decision date: 24 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Redesign Architecture

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 55 days. Approved, as 90% of extensions here are.

This one56d

Council55d

UK55d

74%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

176decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Derbyshire Dales in the last twelve months, from validation. Derbyshire Dales decision record →

Public comments

2comments received

2 neutral

Last counted 14 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15106019
Planning Portal ref: PP-15106019
Consultation: 31 Jul 2026
Comments by: 27 Aug 2026
Site or press notice: 6 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry: 24 Sept 2026
Env. assessment: No

Derbyshire Dales

Planning Authority Score

5.8/10

Average

#110 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Derbyshire Dales ranks #121 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Derbyshire Dales decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

89%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #129 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #127 of 296

70%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #121 of 296

38%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #127 of 296

81%

Minor dwellings approved

85 decided (1-9 homes)

75%

Major dwellings approved

4 decided (10+ homes)

100%

Change of use approved

4 decided

486

Total decisions

52 refused in the year to March 2026