This is the website of the Save Our Fields community campaign dedicated to preventing excessive development in the area of Cawdor Quarry. In particular, the campaign aims to safeguard the greenfield land surrounding the site.
This is just the start of our website. Please check it regularly as we will soon be posting news and updates.
New planning application
You will recall the successful ‘Save Our Fields’ campaign, which fought the plan to build houses on Snitterton Fields, as part of a major housing development in Cawdor quarry. The application was granted for development in a series of phases – but with just six houses on the fields instead of 120. The flats and houses that you see in Matlock Spa Road, on the way to Sainsbury’s, are the first phase of that plan.
The developers have now submitted a new application, in which the next phase of the development proposes significantly more houses than the original application. It is now 203 units, mainly in flats, instead of the previous 108. This is obviously significantly higher density and raises a number of concerns, not least that, if approved, it may set a precedent to apply for even more houses after this phase. There is also a concern that the transfer of land promised to the Wildlife Trust has not yet occurred.
If you would like to find out more, or help with the campaign, contact us.
You can see the planning application, read comments and documents, and comment, on the council planning website:
planning.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/online-applications
Search for reference number 25/00316/FUL.