Land to the rear,Edge Lea,The Edge,Eyam,Hope Valley,S32 5QP Data via plota.co.uk

NP/TCA/0826/0848 - Conservation Area Tree Work Approved

Proposal

2 No Salix Caprea in poor condition, approx 2-3 stems each, which have variously pollarded, coppiced and cut back over the years. The trees are approximately 10-15 years old. The applicant intends to coppice the trees, in order to reduce their problematic overhanging branches, which are impeding the public highway. DCC have served a maintenance order. The trees will re-grow. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
27 Aug 2026
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Approved
10 Sept 2026

Approved on 10 Sept 2026 · Last checked 16 Sept 2026

Site constraints 8

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: The Firs, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline
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.
Historic England ↗
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.
Eyam 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), 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.
Habitat network: Traditional orchards
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
SSSI about 422 m away: Waterfall Meadows SSSI; Priority habitat about 5 m away: Traditional orchard.
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 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
Conservation Area Tree Work
Postcode
S32 5QP
Received
27 Aug 2026
Validated
27 Aug 2026
Parish
Eyam
Case officer
Show
Decision
Accept
Decision date
10 Sept 2026
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 14 days from validation, 9 days slower than Peak District's median of 5 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 100% of tree and landscaping works here are.

99%decided within 8 weeks
100%approved
144decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by Peak District in the last twelve months, from validation. Peak District decision record →

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation
27 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry
8 Oct 2026