A place called home

Some 38,000 people are lucky enough to live in the Peak District National Park – and more would like to but find property prices out of reach.

The National Park Authority is working hard to encourage affordable homes for local people: it was the first (in 1994) to specify that home building on new sites would normally be permitted only for local people, which reduced the price by about a third.

As the area planning authority it advises people on designs and locations for residential and business developments, and it safeguards the special qualities of the National Park with its planning decisions.

The National Park is not just an attractive place to live but to work in too – the economy is buoyant, unemployment relatively low, with tourism the highest job provider, followed by manufacturing, farming and quarrying.

The Authority supports sustainable economic activity by:

providing marketing and grants for tourism, food, craft and innovative enterprises
helping farmers with grants
helping businesses which have social, economic or environmental benefit and do not harm the Park’s natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage.

Source of the Peak - a young person's guide to the Peak District