Millers Dale Station,Unnamed Road From Glebe Farm To B6049,Millers Dale, Data via plota.co.uk

NP/HPK/1125/1163 - Change Of Use Approved

Proposal

Change of use from Interpretation space to interpretation space and National Park Centre (incorporating cycle hire) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
18 Nov 2025
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Validated
25 Nov 2025
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Approved
17 Feb 2026

Approved on 17 Feb 2026 · Last checked 9 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Peak District Planning Committee on 13 Feb 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because the use would support recreation and interpretation without harming the National Park, subject to additional parking before cycle hire begins.
  • Parish councils and 44 representations raised concerns about visitor numbers, cycling, parking, ecology, traffic, safety and impacts on existing businesses.
  • The committee approved the application with the proposed conditions, including additional parking before cycle hire and opening hours from 09:00 to 17:00.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, public participation, committee debate and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Peak District's committee minutes of 13 Feb 2026.

Documents 64

Consultation & comments 53

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Representation Letter 2 · 4 Feb 2026 View ↗
PDF Agent response to highway authority Information Provided · 21 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Response to Highway Authority Comments 14/01/2026 Information Provided · 21 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Applicant response to equestrian concerns Information Provided · 21 Jan 2026 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Representation Letter 2 · 19 Jan 2026 View ↗
PDF Wormhill & Green Fairfield Parish Council - 16-01-26.msg Consultation - External · 16 Jan 2026 View ↗
PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Representation Letter 2 · 6 Jan 2026 View ↗
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PDF DCC Highways Response 19-12-2025.pdf Consultation - External · 19 Dec 2025 View ↗
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PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Representation Letter 2 · 17 Dec 2025 View ↗
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All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 13

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.
Public footpath about 8 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.
Millers Dale conservation area
Also Millers Dale. 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.
Special area of conservation about 17 m away: Peak District Dales
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 5
Very 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.
SSSI about 17 m away: Monk's Dale 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.
5 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin
Nearest: Church of St Anne, Grade II, about 18 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 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.
Show all 5 with distances
Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ
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
Nature recovery project: Wye Valley; Priority habitat about 12 m away: Deciduous woodland; Open access land about 6 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 · 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 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.

Building

Floor area69 m² (743 sq ft)
Energy ratingC (71 out of 100)
PropertyMid-terrace maisonette, 3 habitable rooms
Built1967 to 1975
HeatingBoiler and radiators, mains gas
WallsSystem built, as built, no insulation (assumed)

From the energy performance certificate lodged in June 2016, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Application type
Change Of Use
Received
18 Nov 2025
Validated
25 Nov 2025
Parish
Wormhill
Case officer
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Decision
GRANTED CONDITIONALLY
Decision date
17 Feb 2026
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 84 days from validation, 31 days slower than Peak District's median of 53 for full applications. Approved, as 84% of full applications here are.

64%decided within 8 weeks
84%approved
354decided in the last year

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation
26 Nov 2025
Comments by
21 Jan 2026
Statutory expiry
19 Jan 2026

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.