Welcome to the Save Our Wolds website.
We’ve been fighting for over a decade to protect this special place from unsustainable development.
You can find all our latest news and blog posts here.
The issues with developing the Wolds site are endless – hence the reason it was sat with Derbyshire Dales planners for nearly five years before being refused in 2024.
Sadly, and unsurprisingly, the developers have decided to appeal against this refusal and the district council have now caved in and removed their objections.
The appeal will go ahead in March 2025 and we are now the only line of defence against profit driven, unsustainable and unwanted development.
About the Wolds
It is 23.6 hectares (or 58.3 acres) of 100% greenfields to the North of Matlock.
Many have tried to concreate over the beautiful Wolds over the decades, and they have all failed.
That is because there are a multitude of constraints that all combine to make the site unsuitable, unsustainable and even reckless to build on.
We have been fighting for over 13 years, initially to keep the Wolds out of the Local Plan, and latterly to prevent speculative development on it.
And along the way we have accumulated a vast amount of information that prove that this site is totally unfit to be granted planning permission.
This is not NIMBYISM. These are material planning considerations based on local and national planning guidance.
On these pages you can find out more about each concern that we have.
Flooding, ground water and sewage
Save our Matlock greenfields 