Objective 10

To support sustainable communities by improving opportunities for affordable housing and connection to services

Target

By 2028 we will have enabled enhanced access to services, jobs and home working increasing premises that can access Superfast (>30Mbps) services from an average of 82% to 84%.

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Headline delivery

By 2028 we will have a Local Plan that enables people with local roots to live in or return to the National Park and help families to remain together in mutual support by developing policies that provide the following.

• Addressing a range of second and holiday home issues.
• Addressing a range of local population issues, for example, young families, elderly and working age.
• Increasing the stock of affordable housing protected in perpetuity through housing associations, local housing trusts, and opportunities for individuals to own their own home for example, via self-build.

In relation to housing, we will undertake the following.

• Influencing national funding bodies (e.g. Homes England) to address the housing needs of Peak District communities.
• Advocating for measures to better control the number of homes used as second or holiday homes.

Actions
TC.1 Develop and implement policies and programmes that impact positively on local communities by addressing a range of second and holiday home issues.
TC.1 Develop and implement policies and programmes that impact positively on local communities by addressing a range of second and holiday home issues.	Critical Success Factors Develop Local Plan policies that address a range of second home and holiday home issues 2023-25 Develop joint campaigning on housing use classes for second homes that addresses a range of second home and holiday home issues 2023-25 Explore with local authorities the full range of financial and legislative tools that can help address second home and holiday home issues 2023-28
	Responsible Partner National Park Authority
	Key Delivery Partners Local Plan Review Stakeholders & Consultees, County councils, District & Borough Councils, Peak Park Parishes Forum
TC.2 Develop and implement policies and programmes that impact positively on local communities by providing and future proofing affordable housing in areas where it is needed, particularly where there is sustainable access to services and support networks, so that those with local roots can remain or return and family groups can support each other.
TC.2 Develop and implement policies and programmes that impact positively on local communities by providing and future proofing affordable housing in areas where it is needed, particularly where there is sustainable access to services and support networks, so that those with local roots can remain or return and family groups can support each other.	Critical Success Factors Local Plan review, including identification of the amount of affordable housing needed 2023-25
	Responsible Partner National Park Authority
	Key Delivery Partners Local Plan Review Stakeholders & Consultees, County councils, District & Borough Councils, Peak Park Parishes Forum
TC.3 Develop and implement policies and programmes that impact positively on local communities by influencing national funding programmes and working with local housing authorities to boost local delivery of affordable housing.
TC.3 Develop and implement policies and programmes that impact positively on local communities by influencing national funding programmes and working with local housing authorities to boost local delivery of affordable housing.	Critical Success Factors Develop tools and programmes looking at understanding housing need in the National Park and investigating intervention at a village scale 2023-25 Develop a pilot intervention for affordable housing delivery in rural settlements 2025-28
	Responsible Partner National Park Authority
	Key Delivery Partners Local Plan Review Stakeholders & Consultees, County councils, District & Borough Councils, Peak Park Parishes Forum

Headline delivery

In relation to access to services, we will deliver the following.

• Improving high-speed digital and mobile access to the hardest-to-reach properties through Project Gigabit, Shared Rural Network, voucher schemes and opportunities arising from future initiatives.
• Improving connections to services through the National Park sustainable travel framework.

Actions
TC.4 Enable high speed digital and mobile access to the hardest to reach properties through Project Gigabit, Shared Rural Network, voucher schemes and opportunities arising from future initiatives.
TC.4 Enable high speed digital and mobile access to the hardest to reach properties through Project Gigabit, Shared Rural Network, voucher schemes and opportunities arising from future initiatives.	Critical Success Factors Programmes successfully delivered 2023-28
	Responsible Partner Derbyshire County Council
	Key Delivery Partners County Councils

Objective 11

To promote a flourishing economy that is in accord with nature recovery and climate change mitigation.

Target

By 2028 to have delivered the Shared Prosperity Fund programmes.

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Headline delivery

By 2028 we will have a Local Plan with policies that provide the following.

• Encouraging environmentally and economically sustainable businesses in suitable locations where they can grow.
• Offer housing opportunities that support a diverse workforce with the skills needed for local businesses and services.
• Recognising the local mineral resource by enabling a sustainable level of mineral activity appropriate to our special landscape.

Actions
TC.5 Deliver business support, including Shared Prosperity Funds and any future schemes in a way that align economic, nature recovery and climate change priorities across the National Park.
TC.5 Deliver business support, including Shared Prosperity Funds and any future schemes in a way that align economic, nature recovery and climate change priorities across the National Park.	Critical Success Factors Shared Prosperity Fund programme successfully delivered 2023-28
	Responsible Partner Derbyshire Dales District Council
	Key Delivery Partners District and Borough Councils
TC.6 Develop whole estate plans to increase the resilience of nature friendly sustainable estates.
TC.6 Develop whole estate plans to increase the resilience of nature friendly sustainable estates.	Critical Success Factors Pilot completed and evaluated by March 2024 Plan implemented from April 2024 to March 2028 Pilot used to influence and encourage others to develop whole estate plans from April 2024 to March 2028
	Responsible Partner Chatsworth
	Key Delivery Partners National Park Authority, Historic England, Natural England
TC.7 Grow and enhance environmentally and economically sustainable businesses through Local Plan policies that identify more places in sustainable locations where businesses can grow.
TC.7 Grow and enhance environmentally and economically sustainable businesses through Local Plan policies that identify more places in sustainable locations where businesses can grow.	Critical Success Factors Local Plan reviewed to take account of required policies 2023-25 Support sustainable business development in accordance with approved policies from April 2025 to 2028
	Responsible Partner National Park Authority
	Key Delivery Partners Local Plan Review Stakeholders & Consultees
TC.8 Grow and enhance environmentally and economically sustainable businesses by providing a diverse workforce through a sufficient supply of safe, energy efficient homes in a mixture of tenures.
TC.8 Grow and enhance environmentally and economically sustainable businesses by providing a diverse workforce through a sufficient supply of safe, energy efficient homes in a mixture of tenures.	Critical Success Factors Local Plan reviewed to take account of required policies 2023-25 Support the development of appropriate housing in accordance with approved policies from April 2025 to 2028
	Responsible Partner National Park Authority
	Key Delivery Partners Local Plan Review Stakeholders & Consultees
TC.9 Grow and enhance environmentally and economically sustainable mineral businesses through enabling a sustainable level of mineral activity appropriate to our special landscape.
TC.9 Grow and enhance environmentally and economically sustainable mineral businesses through enabling a sustainable level of mineral activity appropriate to our special landscape.	Critical Success Factors Local Plan reviewed to take account of required policies 2023-25 Support the development of appropriate mineral resources in accordance with approved policies from April 2025 to 2028
	Responsible Partner National Park Authority
	Key Delivery Partners Local Plan Review Stakeholders & Consultees, Derbyshire County Council