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Extending the Monsal Trail Bakewell to Rowsley Via Haddon Hall Tunnel Extending the Monsal Trail Bakewell to Rowsley via Haddon Hall Tunnel with revisions arising from comments PLANNING APPLICATION DOCUMENT and points raised at Rowsley Parish Meeting March 2012 PLANNING APPLICATION • EXTENDING THE MONSAL TRAIL: BAKEWELL TO ROWSLEY VIA HADDON HALL TUNNELS • M A R C H 0 1 • PEAK CYCLE LINKS Contents White Peak Loop map ................................................. 1 Introduction ................................................................. 2 Map 1: Monsal Trail and Elliottholme Deviation .......... 3 Map 2: Details along the Elliottholme Deviation .......... 4 Map 3: Elliotholme Deviation to Tunnel Entrance ........ 5 Map 4: Haddon Hall Tunnels ....................................... 6 Map 5: Haddon Hall Tunnels to Timber Yard............... 7 Map 6: Rowsley ........................................................... 8 Technical and fencing details ...................................... 9 Summary of overall proposals from Bakewell to Matlock: a possible programme and sequence of openings .................................................................... 10 Haddon Hall Tunnel ................................................... 11 … Binding margin – A3 single sided … Separate appendices: • Bat survey in Haddon Hall Tunnels • Ecological survey Prepared by Penny Anderson Associates Ltd, Consultant Ecologists • A note on the railway history and archaeology Prepared for Peak Cycle Links by John Grimshaw, CBE Report intended to be printed in full colour on A3 size paper Graphics - Jane Debney, Paul Boston PLANNING APPLICATION • EXTENDING THE MONSAL TRAIL: BAKEWELL TO ROWSLEY VIA HADDON HALL TUNNELS • M A R C H 0 1 • PEAK CYCLE LINKS Map showing Haddon Hall and the proposed links to Buxton and Matlock stations all connected by the Monsal, High Peak and Tissington Trails Map showing High Peak, Monsal and Tissington Trails with the proposed links to Buxton and Matlock Stations 7. Buxton East Section: Buxton 8. Woo Dale Section: Note: Station to Redgap Lane Church Lane and Woo 10. Monsal Trail East Dale to Wyedale carpark Section: Headstone Tunnel These proposals for a Matlock and Buxton Loop were first put forward during 2009. to Coombs Road The whole 60 mile loop has been divided up into convenient seperate sections to 6. Buxton South make a manageable project. Since then the Monsal Trail (sections 9 and 10) has Section: Green Lane been opened up through the Headstone, Cressbrook, Litton and Chee tunnels to to Buxton Station reach Topley Pike. Planning consent has been given for section 4 at Harpur Hill and planning applications are under consideration for the remainder of the Buxton ‘Horseshoe’. Planning applications for section 8 (Woo Dale and Wye Dale) were made in December 2010, for 12a (Rowlsey to Harrison Way) in March 2011 and for section 11 (Haddon) in November 2011. Derbyshire County Council anticipates opening 12d via the gated road to Oker in 2012. 5. Country Park Section: Ladmanlow The local charity, Peak Cycle Links, was set up in August 2010 to deliver all the 9. Monsal Trail: sections except the Monsal Trail which has been handled by the Peak District to Green Lane Headstone Tunnel to National Park Authority. It is anticipated that the overall programme will be Topley Pike Section coordinated by Derbyshire County Council. Opened 25 May 2011 off road route completed section minor road route unfinished section 4. Staker Hill and Harpur Hill Section: … Earl Sterndale Road to Ladmanlow 12a. Rowsley to Harrison Way Section The Peak Trails Links Project: 3. Earl Sterndale 12b. Rowsley south to A summary 11. Haddon Hall Section: Section: Church Road Coombs Road to Rowsley to Street Binding margin – A3 single sided Buxton to the High Peak Trail, to House Farm … the Monsal Trail, and on to Matlock 12c. Old Road to Leisure Centre The National Park has popular cycling routes along the Tissington and High Peak Trails as 12d. Oker Section well as on the Monsal Trail near to Bakewell. But it has long been frustrated by their not connecting through to Buxton and Matlock Stations. 2. High Peak Trail The links proposed here would overcome this and lay the foundation for the National Park 13. Cromford and to pursue a much more sustainable transport 1. Tissington Trail programme, one in which many visitors arrived Matlock Section by train and then used bicycles to explore the Park. The map here does no more than show the line of the proposed route and highlight each section which is to be covered by a detailed report for discussion with landowners and authorities. Based on Ordnance Survey Digital Data with permission of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown Copyright. Peak District Planning Authority Licence Number LA100005734 1 PLANNING APPLICATION • EXTENDING THE MONSAL TRAIL: BAKEWELL TO ROWSLEY VIA HADDON HALL TUNNELS • M A R C H 0 1 • PEAK CYCLE LINKS Extending the Monsal Trail: Bakewell to Rowsley via Haddon Hall Tunnel Introduction On May 25th 2011 the Peak District National encourage families and novices to start cycling as 3 A potential route via the entrance to Haddon Hall 5 The bridlepath route option for equestrians to Park opened the Monsal Trail through from Great well as become a noteworthy attraction in its own which was discussed with the Estate in some avoid these 900m long tunnels gives wide views Langstone to Topley Pike. This section includes right. The map shows the following; detail, but left too many issues of conflict and from Middle Road. spectacular scenery and no fewer than six tunnels. difficulty to become a viable proposition. The Trail currently ends with a 1:3 ramp down to 1 The A6 which is heavily trafficked and completely These proposals have been prepared by Peak Coombs Road. unsuitable for family cyclists. 4 The route through the Haddon Hall Tunnels (two Cycle Links, who are working to support tunnels separated by a 9 metre long shaft) offers Derbyshire County Council and the Peak a direct and level route free from conflicts with the This report sets out proposals to continue along 2 Coombs Road / Church Road is an attractive, if District National Park Authority in their pursuit rough, route with wide views but it climbs over historic landscapes above, and is proposed for of completing the 60-mile White Peak Cycling the railway formation to Rowsley to extend walkers and cyclists only. the popular Monsal Trail towards Matlock. The 100m steeply up from Rowsley. This would be a Circuit as a means of introducing this sustainable considerable deterrent to popular use. task is to make an attractive route which would transport into the National Park. Monsal Trail … Coombs Road Binding margin – A3 single sided … 2 Approaching Headstone Tunnel: May 2011 5 3 4 1 Picture looking towards Rowsley showing the heavy traffic on the A6 PLANNING APPLICATION • EXTENDING THE MONSAL TRAIL: BAKEWELL TO ROWSLEY VIA HADDON HALL TUNNELS • M A R C H 0 1 • PEAK CYCLE LINKS Map 1: Monsal Trail and Elliottholme Deviation Monsal Trail to 1 Buxton 1) The completed Monsal Trail has been resurfaced To Bakewell Sketch through Coombs Road Viaduct shows Bakewell Remove last 3m with Toptrec stone material. Start of path levels dropped to give a safe parapet height Haddon and the viaduct waterproofed over its full width Station 8m of railway Hall Tunnels fence and COOMBS ROAD 2) Proposed link to Coombs Road, shown in the section Remove all material from viaduct to levels shown. Viaduct full reposition as detail, given a 1:15 gradient suitable for families Compact sub base and lay dense bitmac to a longitudinal fall width shown and finish with 60mm of asphalt to waterproof the deck 8m x – – Existing steep – and disabled people. – – 3 – x x – 1:3¾ access ramp – – x 3) Coombs Road to Bakewell. The road runs back – – – Repair Hedge under the Arches and gives good views of the Slope down x Coombs – iron 1m min. towards path – Viaduct. This is the old main road to Matlock and Road to – x railings from edge of – Rowsley – provides one route through for equestrians and formation – x – an alternative (although hilly) route for cyclists and – – Excavate here x – to create even walkers on the few days the Haddon Hall Tunnel – – x gradient route is closed for pheasant shoots. 2 – – 8m – x – 4) The road to Elliottholme is the alternative 4 – Keep – x – this bridleway route through to Middle Road and – Level this – silver x – Rowsley. x side across – birch – from the path x – x 5) Provide gate here to close off Haddon Hall Tunnels to create a – Keep – x wide verge – route on shoot days (4 or 5 per year) with map this silver – and provide – birch x showing Coombs Road alternative and the two 6 – material for – Path cut an even – … causeway x gradient of less than routes for equestrians. The Haddon Hall Tunnel – – 1:15 over 120m from 2.5m – route is for walkers, cyclists and wheelchairs only x 7 – Coombs Road to end – – of Viaduct. As much as far as Park Lane. Main path x – X – excavation as possible - - - towards - – - X x - at the high level so - - 6) Start of zig-zag ramp to climb up the side of the – - Elliottholme - X – - - as to leave the shape - – - - Wood and X 8 cutting so as to avoid Elliottholme. Locked gate x - - – -- of the embankment - X Haddon Hall -- – --- X – - across railway here to prevent access to Estate -- intact from the road -- Tunnels x X - – - - Note 3: Coombs Road Viaduct - - – X - - - – - - Road. X - - - - - x X - - - - - X – – – 7) The path continues in the wide margins of the x – – Binding margin – A3 single sided former railway land. – x … Note 2 - Sketch of 8) Whilst the hillside is generally well graded, one Estate Cut into slope here proposed Coombs X to accommodate path road - - Road Ramp - zig-zag is required here to keep to the 1:15 - - X 9 - - - - - X gradient. The path moves into an open glade in - - - - - X - - - - the adjacent woodland. - X - - - - - X -- -- 10 - X - 9) Here the path moves into the field edge to avoid -- - - X -- -- - X- -- the railway margins lost by landslip during the -- X -- -- - X - - - 1860’s construction.
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