Peak District

Appeal: Housing scheme would harm national park more than 2km away

19.12.2019

Matt Moody

Housing | housing shortfall | National Park | Peak District | Rural | West Midlands

An inspector has blocked plans for 154 homes in Staffordshire despite the council’s housing supply of just 1.54 years, citing harm to the setting of the Peak District National Park, whose boundary was more...
Are national parks fit for purpose?

05.09.2019

Matt Moody

Environmental | Lake District | National Parks | Peak District | South Downs | UK

Seventy years since the act that brought them into being, some question whether the UK’s national parks are living up to their founding principles. Matt Moody asks: Are national parks fit for purpose?...
Contract awarded for Trans-Pennine viability study

29.07.2015

Laura Edgar

Department for Transport | Infrastructure | North West | Peak District | trans-pennine | Transport for the North

Plans for a Trans-Pennine tunnel better connecting Sheffield and Manchester are to undergo a viability test.
Peak District earmarked for £2.5m grant

18.11.2014

Laura Edgar

England | Environmental assessment/ sustainability appraisal | Heritage | Heritage Lottery Fund | landscape | Peak District

A total of £2.5 million has been earmarked for the South West Peak Landscape Partnership by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).