Living In
How to apply for planning permission. Historic buildings and conservation areas, village management.
- Visitor Centres
Locations and contact details of our four visitor centres - Pedal Peak District
Route maps, bike hire and how to get fit for free - Guided Walks and Events
Free guided walks suitable for all and other events all year round - Getting here
Make use of the best public transport links for any National Park
Community
If you are involved in helping to run a village or other community organisation, or are looking to set one up for your village and don't know where to start, please get in touch with our Live & Work Rural officers who will be able to help.
Equally, if you have ideas you'd like to share with other villages, we are looking for practical ideas and which benefit the whole community and which can be easily repeated at low or no-cost.
We will also share ideas through Park Life our twice yearly publication which gets sent to 18,000 households twice a year.
Live & Work Rural officers
Our Vilve & Work Rural Officers are Adele Metcalfe and Dan Yates who are available to discuss any questions you might have, either at our offices in Bakewell or in your village.
Phone Adele on 01629 816375 or email adele.metcalfe@peakdistrict.gov.uk
Phone Dan on 01629 816258 or email daniel.yates@peakdistrict.gov.uk
Live & Work Rural
Live & Work Rural is the new brand for our services which offer advice, guidance and financial support to individuals, community groups, voluntary organisations and businesses that help achieve our conservation aims.
Please visit the Live & Work Rural section to learn more and get in touch with our staff.
Peak District Community Planning
Peak District Community Planning gives you the opportunity to contribute to the management of your village. The project is run by the Authority in partnership with Staffordshire Moorlands Community and Voluntary Services and by the European Regional Development Fund
Affordable housing delivery
The Authority works with housing authorities and parish councils to find the best way to deliver affordable housing whilst conserving the national park.
Housing planning delivery grant (273KB) 
Useful documents and how to guides
We are working with communities in the Peak District to develop useful 'how to' guides which are aimed at helping to solve common problems faced by villages and other communities. The guides will be available to download from this website.
How to set up a village website
This guide was written by us with help from residents from Parwich and Alstonefield, with both villages having used a popular system called WordPress to create vibrant, interesting and above all, useful websites for their villages.
How to set up a village website using Wordpress
An article introducing the guide is available in the July 2009 edition of Park Life (2.7MB)
