Chapel Milton Viaduct West Span , Chapel Milton , Chapel-En-Le-Frith , Derbyshire , Data via plota.co.uk

HPK/2026/0159 - Listed Building Consent - Alteration Withdrawn

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for the removal of mortar and grout to re-establish 3 no. holes within Span 3 Pier 2 of Chapel Milton Viaduct (west span) to provide nesting habitat for swifts Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

21 Apr 2026

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Withdrawn

28 Apr 2026

Withdrawn on 28 Apr 2026 · Last checked 12 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 11

Chapel Milton conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

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.

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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 4. 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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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

Public footpath about 26 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.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; National park about 290 m away: Peak District; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Priority habitat about 4 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present; Flood defence about 38 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 5 year flood); National infrastructure project about 1847 m away: Peak Cluster CCS Pipeline, at pre-application; Green belt about 91 m away: Merseyside and Greater Manchester.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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: High Peak
Application type: Listed Building Consent - Alteration
Received: 21 Apr 2026
Decision: Application Withdrawn
Decision date: 28 Apr 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 12 May 2026

High Peak

Planning Authority Score

1.2/10

Poor

#287 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Other decisions

High Peak is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #284 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 73% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (89%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

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High Peak decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

85%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #207 of 296

89%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #204 of 296

29%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #284 of 296

73%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #291 of 296

78%

Minor dwellings approved

32 decided (1-9 homes)

80%

Major dwellings approved

5 decided (10+ homes)

89%

Change of use approved

18 decided

364

Total decisions

55 refused in the year to March 2026