Design Guide

At home with the past, but fit for the future - that is the dual focus of the latest Design Guide, published by the Peak District National Park Authority.

Aimed at anyone from developers to householders, the guide features 158 illustrations and gives advice on best practice, from simple house extensions and work buildings to shops and housing estates.

It covers things including:

• Local building traditions and craftsmanship
• The importance of access and the space around buildings
• Blending contemporary with traditional
• Consideration for the neighbourhood.

It also sets the tone for the way forward - encouraging:

• Affordable housing to support communities
• Energy, water and waste efficiency
• Sustainable materials and re-using buildings
• Provision for wildlife.

The National Park Authority has adopted the guide as a "Supplementary Planning Document". It provides a benchmark for the Authority when considering planning applications, and so applications that follow the principles set out in the guide will have a greater chance of being approved.

Complete Design Guide (6.1MB)

1. Contents and introduction (670KB)

2. The Peak tradition (775KB)

3. New development - designing in sympathy (655KB)

4. Materials (500KB)

5. Access and space between buildings (1.3MB)

6. Sustainable design (450KB)

7. Alterations and extensions (550KB)

8. Conversions (530KB)

9. Shop fronts (300KB)

10. Details (630KB)

11. External works (600KB)

12. Wildlife and protected species (170KB)

13. Appendices (270KB)

Paper copies of the Design Guide are also available priced 10.00 + 4.00 postage. You can buy the Design Guide online get in touch by phone on 01629 816200 or by email to customer.service@peakdistrict.gov.uk or visit us during office hours at Aldern House, Baslow Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1AE.

Technical and detailed guidance

A detailed Design Guidance Note - aimed more at professionals - will complement the new Design Guide. Work on this is due to commence in 2010. Until then, please refer to the technical and detailed advice within the Building Design Guide (1987).

The National Park Authority has officially adopted the 1987 guide as a ?Technical Supplement?.
Download Building Design Guide (1987)
(7MB please note that this is a scanned document)