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A big welcome to Emma on the blog team: she has lots of ideas on how to contribute to the site. One idea she has is a regular feature on planning issues. However with the following, I am perhaps being guilty here of stealing some of her thunder.

I noticed today that the Planning Officer’s report on the proposed extension to Station Road Farm has been posted on the Peak Park Authority’s website. This is to be considered at Friday’s meeting of the Planning Committee at Bakewell. The Parish Council have supported this application and there are some 31 letters of support from local residents, and no letters of objection.

The Officer’s Report makes interesting reading, as it is much more thorough than reports I have previously seen. The Planning Service is undoubtedly committed to fighting for refusal of the application. It is too late to add any further comments, though the Committee meeting is open to the public. I am sure the applicant and her family will welcome the support of friends and neighbours (in the real, not planner’s interpretation of the word) at what must be a stressful time.

Confusingly the Planning Officer raises the issue of building affordable housing; though do read the report as it may help the community in general to raise the profile of this with the Authority, after their previous resistance to the Nottingham Housing Association application for additional houses at Smithy Close and Rathbone Croft. Also the report is perhaps an indication of the role the Conservation Area Appraisal may play in future planning applications.