Potential sites for thousands of new homes in Derbyshire revealed
Details of potential sites for more than 2,000 homes have been disclosed for the first time by a Derbyshire council.
Derbyshire Dales District Council has released the locations of 28 sites which it may formally earmark for a total of 2,133 homes, subject to public consultation in August and a Government planning inspector.
This includes seven housing sites for Ashbourne potentially totalling more than half the new plots at 1,273 homes. This figure includes a 700-home development off the A52 on the town’s southern boundary.
That 700-home plot would stretch from the Derby Road roundabout to the Wyaston Road, with houses either side of Moor Lane, with these fields currently hosting the Peak Gateway Leisure Club caravan and campsite.
Meanwhile, the village of Doveridge, south of the A52, close to Uttoxeter, would see three sites totalling 243 homes; Middleton by Wirksworth would see two neighbouring sites totalling 116 homes; Tansley would have three new sites totalling 211 homes; Darley Dale would see four sites totalling 104 homes; along with 65 homes in Brailsford, 39 homes in Matlock, 30 homes in Ednaston, 30 homes in Hulland Ward and 22 homes in Northwood
This comes as the district council aims to earmark sites for its Local Plan review which must take into account annual housing targets mandated by Government – now totalling 580 homes per year.
The district council is seeking to reach an agreement with the Peak District National Park – which oversees planning in half of the Dales – to take on a fair share of proposed new housing.
It has suggested the Peak District take 158 homes per year, leaving it with 415 per year, with back-up options which would see the national park take just 50 homes per year (Dales 523), or to retain existing metrics which see the Dales have a 284-home annual target.
The Peak Park has already said it will likely only be able to achieve 52 homes per year, leading to a 106-home per year shortfall which will need to be picked up by surrounding authorities, including those in other counties.
Consultants hired by the council outline planning for 15 years of meeting the annual target, which would total 8,700 new homes and say the council can only showcase 1.36 years worth of future homes – 789.
The council is also considering how best to allocate new housing, with the most discussed option by councillors being a plan to have Ashbourne, Matlock and Wirksworth take 65 per cent of new housing, followed by 15 per cent in rural villages and a new settlement, 13 per cent in more accessible villages; five per cent in Darley Dale and the remaining homes in other outlying villages.
A planned new village, potentially in the south of the district, was the prime option being considered by councillors once set to take 70 per cent of new housing, but it has now been pushed to a background future option to take proper shape from 2035 onwards.
That new village could see 150 homes built per year from 2035-2040, consultants say, but with a mountain of work to do to achieve even that distant aim and with more settlements potentially needed by then.
Here are the 28 potential housing sites being consulted on by the district council:
- Station Street, Ashbourne – 34 homes
- Cavendish Drive, Ashbourne – 28 homes
- Green Road, Ashbourne – 88 homes
- Ashbourne Airfield – 200 homes
- Belper Road, Sturston, Ashbourne – 193 homes
- Windsor Close, Ashbourne – 30 homes
- A52 south of Ashbourne – 700 homes
- South of Main Street, Brailsford – 53 homes
- Church Lane, Brailsford – 12
- Church Road, Darley Dale – 40 homes
- Old Hackney Lane, Darley Dale – 14 homes
- Bakewell Road, Darley Dale – 25 homes
- Dale Road South, Darley Dale (St Elphins extension) – 25 homes
- Cote Hilloc, Northwood (former Matlock Transport site) – 22 homes
- Derby Road, Doveridge – 194 homes
- Babbs Lane, Doveridge – 36 homes
- Marston Lane, Doveridge – 13 homes
- Hollington Lane, Ednaston – 30 homes
- Main Road, Hulland Ward – 10 homes
- Dog Lane, Hulland Ward – 20 homes
- Snitterton Road, Matlock – 34 homes
- Smedley Street, Matlock – three houses
- Butts Drive, Matlock – two houses
- North of Porter Lane, Middleton by Wirksworth – 57 homes
- South of Porter Lane, Middleton by Wirksworth – 59 homes
- Nottingham Road, Tansley – 150 homes
- Thatchers Lane, Tansley – 11 homes
- Lumsdale, Tansley (former Tansley Wood Mills site) – 50 homes
The council had planned to adopt its new Local Plan from September 2027, however this may be pushed back to early 2029 consultants say, with the current aim being “early 2028”.