Lea Green Hall Car Park, Main Road, Lea, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 5GJ Data via plota.co.uk

CD6/1225/14 - Minor (County Council) Approved

Proposal

To dismantle an existing high ropes course and replace with a new course, 12m and 5m high on a slightly increased footprint increasing by 24.5m2 of hard standing. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
5 Dec 2025
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Validated
1 May 2026
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Approved
7 Aug 2026

Approved on 7 Aug 2026 · Last checked 26 Oct 2026

Documents 38

Statements & assessments 21

PDF 2026 07 29 RES DCC Built Heritage.pdf (2832 kb) Document · 29 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF 2026 07 29 RES DCC Built Heritage Attachment - Photograph.pdf (2632 kb) Document · 29 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF 2026 07 24 RES DCC Built Heritage.pdf (2831 kb) Document · 24 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF 2026 07 24 RES DCC Built Heritage - Attachment.pdf (2632 kb) Document · 24 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF 2026 07 21 RES Built Heritage.pdf (260 kb) Document · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF 2026 07 02 RES DCC Built Heritage.pdf (259 kb) Document · 3 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF RE_ CD6_1225_14- Lea Green - comments from Conservation_ Heritage_ and Design_.msg (8102 kb) Document · 29 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF 2026 06 23 RES DCC Built Heritage.pdf (2819 kb) Document · 23 Jun 2026 View ↗ IMG 2026 06 23 RES DCC Built Heritage Attachment.jpg (2622 kb) Document · 23 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF 525003 Parking Provision Statement.pdf (734 kb) Document · 29 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF P25-514 Lea Green BNG Report.pdf (8231 kb) Document · 8 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Phase 2 Pre-development Arboricultural Report .pdf (4840 kb) Document · 8 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF P25-514 Lea Green Statutory Biodiversity Gain Metric.xlsx (4139 kb) Document · 8 Apr 2026 View ↗
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PDF Design and Access Statement.pdf (3507 kb) Document · 5 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Health Impact Statement.pdf (670 kb) Document · 5 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Heritage Statement.pdf (1242 kb) Document · 5 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Open Space Statement.pdf (1301 kb) Document · 5 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Planning Statement.pdf (1574 kb) Document · 5 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Sustainability Statement.pdf (828 kb) Document · 5 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Waste Management Statement.pdf (651 kb) Document · 5 Dec 2025 View ↗

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Site constraints 6

Dethick, Lea and Holloway 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 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 Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 5
An estimated 10 to 30% 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 ↗
4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: NOS. 1 AND 2 THE ROW, Grade II, about 42 m from the postcode pin · 4 Grade II
The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.
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Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Priority habitat about 33 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

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 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

Application type
Minor (County Council)
Postcode
DE4 5GJ
Received
5 Dec 2025
Validated
1 May 2026
Parish
Dethick, Lea and Holloway
Case officer
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Decision
Approved subject to conditions
Decision date
7 Aug 2026
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