Housing Needs Survey for the Longstone area, including the parishes of Great Longstone, Little Longstone, Hassop, Rowland and Wardlow
High property prices, expensive private rents and a shortage of suitable, affordable housing can make it a real challenge for people on more modest incomes to live in the Peak District National Park. For young people interested in setting up a home for the first time, older people who need to downsize, or families struggling in high cost rented homes, the lack of affordable housing can force them to move away from their families and where they have lived most of their lives.
To address this issue, the District Council’s corporate priorities include enabling new affordable homes for local people where they are needed. In working with parishes in the Longstone area and the Neighbourhood Planning Committee, we have identified growing concerns that there is unmet housing need that should be addressed.
Before any options can be considered, we’re calling on the community to help us identify the type of affordable housing required to meet need. If you feel your housing is unsuitable, you wish to move in the next 5 years, and feel you have a local connection to the parishes above, please tell us about your housing issues through this survey.
The survey also provides the opportunity to express your view on the provision of new affordable housing in this area even if you do not feel you are in housing need.
Residents can answer the Housing Needs Survey here.
We also encourage anyone with a local connection to any of these parishes but living elsewhere to complete the survey.
If a level of housing need can be evidenced via the survey, the District Council, in collaboration with partners and local communities, can help to enable the development of new affordable housing for local people.
The survey will open on the 11th November and the deadline for completing the survey is 14th December 2025.
If you have any queries, or need a hard copy of the survey, please contact Emma Holt, the District Council’s Housing Needs and Research Officer, on 01629 761252 or at
