Land south of Mam Tor, north of Winnats Head Farm,Mam Tor Road,Castleton, Data via plota.co.uk

NP/HPK/1125/1168 - Full Planning Permission REGISTERED: Under Assessment

Proposal

Development of new permanent footpath across land between Mam Tor Road with Edale Road. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Oct 2026, 23:46

Application progress

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Received

around 2 Dec 2025

Decision

Target date was 27 Jan 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision soon after comments close on 21 Apr 2026; it is now day 332.

The consultation period closed on 21 Apr 2026.

Documents 25

Site constraints 10

Peak District National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Public footpath about 19 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 5. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

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.

SSSI about 15 m away: Castleton SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

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

Habitat network: Sssi

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

Radon affected area, class 6

An estimated 30% or more of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

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.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Scheduled monument about 235 m away: Odin Mine nucleated lead mine and ore works, 350m WNW of Knowlegates Farm; Priority habitat about 34 m away: Upland flushes fens and swamps; National infrastructure project about 1929 m away: Peak Cluster CCS Pipeline, at pre-application; Open access land about 38 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 18 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 Planning Inspectorate, 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: Peak District
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Postcode: S33 8WA
Received: around 2 Dec 2025
Validated: 2 Dec 2025
Parish: Castleton
Case officer: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 332, past the statutory target. 86% of full applications in Peak District are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 24 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 332276 days past the 56-day target

64%decided within 8 weeks

84%approved

354decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Peak District in the last twelve months, from validation. Peak District decision record →