Land Adjacent 25,Hernstone Lane,Peak Forest, Data via plota.co.uk

NP/HPK/1025/1040 - Full Planning Permission Approved at committee

Approved at planning committee on 16 January 2026, subject to a legal agreement. The council issues its decision notice once the agreement is signed.

Proposal

Erection of local needs dwelling (self-build). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 26 Oct 2026, 10:01

Application progress

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Received

21 Oct 2025

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Committee

16 Jan 2026

Decision notice

Not issued yet

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 30 Oct 2026; it is now day 374.

The consultation period closed on 25 Nov 2025.

Planning committee

Decided by Peak District Planning Committee on 16 Jan 2026. Earlier deferred on 5 Dec 2025. The council has not yet issued its decision notice.

Approved

Officers advised refusal because the 100sqm dwelling exceeded the identified one-person need and would harm the Conservation Area.
The Parish Council supported the dwelling, while the National Park Authority objected to its size.
Members approved the application contrary to the officer recommendation and policy, subject to a legal agreement and conditions.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ advice, consultation responses, public speaking, committee debate, vote and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Peak District's committee minutes of 16 Jan 2026.

Documents 16

Site constraints 7

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Peak District Dales SAC

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

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.

Peak Forest and Old Dam 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.

Council document ↗

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 Expansion Zone

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

National infrastructure project about 54 m away: Peak Cluster CCS Pipeline, at pre-application.

Not affected

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

Checked on 20 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: SK17 8EJ
Received: 21 Oct 2025
Validated: 21 Oct 2025
Parish: Peak Forest
Case officer: Show
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 374, 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 26 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 374318 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 →