Our environment and the Hope Valley

HVCE recognise that the Peak Park and the Greater Hope Valley are areas of outstanding beauty and a national asset. We are operating in a historic landscape shaped by centuries of use with a scattered rural population of mixed small villages and dwellings, both commercial and residential. It is an area of considerable sensitivity and needs to be protected as much as possible.

Additionally, we are operating at a time in history when the stresses on our environment, climate and ecosystems have never been greater and the need for mitigating actions more pressing. 

While we need to protect the landscape there is a need for the Peak Park to play its part in preventing climate change. Rightly the main thrust will come from maintaining and improving the natural biodiversity but there is a place for sympathetic development and changes within the Greater Hope Valley that will improve the capacity of the Park and help its occupants to thrive.