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High Peak: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

High Peak Borough Council: Non-metropolitan district (lower tier), England, East Midlands; within the county of DBY. GOV.UK lists it as a district council, within Derbyshire County Council. ONS code E07000037.

Council website

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by High Peak for 2026–27: £230.89 of a £2,384.66 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 7 opened (6 academy converter, 1 new provision), 6 closed (6 academy converter)

Burbage Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 November 2025
Buxton Infant School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Buxton Junior School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 March 2026
Fairfield Infant and Nursery School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 May 2026
Harpur Hill Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 30 April 2026
Simmondley Primary School (primary) — closed; reason recorded: academy converter, 31 July 2026
Burbage Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 December 2025
Buxton Infant School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Buxton Junior School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 April 2026
Fairfield Infant and Nursery School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 June 2026
Harpur Hill Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 May 2026
Oaklands Manor School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 18 December 2025
Simmondley Primary School (primary) — open; reason recorded: academy converter, 1 August 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as High Peak reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

High Peak: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	none budgeted
Highways and transport services	−£1.2 million
Children's social care	none budgeted
Adult social care	none budgeted
Public health	none budgeted
Housing services (general fund only)	£1.9 million
Cultural and related services	£2.6 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£5.5 million
Planning and development services	£2.3 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£3.9 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£14.9 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

High Peak in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population: 91,959 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age: 46 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head: £25,328 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay: £616 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs: 19.6% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count: 2.4% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price: £258,856 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based): 7.0 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Greenhouse gas emissions: 32.3 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband: 85.3% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers: 107.7 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses: 3,880 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

43 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 27, Conservative and Unionist 9, Independent / Other 3, Green Party (E&W) 2, Reform UK 1, Liberal Democrats 1.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 43 councillors, by ward

Rachael Quinn (Labour Party) — Barms
Angela Benham (Labour Party) — Blackbrook
Dan Capper (Independent / Other) — Blackbrook
Chris Payne (Labour Party) — Burbage
Jean Todd (Labour Party) — Buxton Central
Payge Hacking (Labour Party) — Buxton Central
Nigel Gourlay (Conservative and Unionist) — Chapel East
Kath Sizeland (Conservative and Unionist) — Chapel West
Sally De Pee (Labour Party) — Chapel West
Chris Morten (Conservative and Unionist) — Corbar
Madeline Hall (Independent / Other) — Corbar
Kev Kirkham (Reform UK) — Cote Heath
Linda Grooby (Conservative and Unionist) — Cote Heath
Dom Starkey (Conservative and Unionist) — Dinting
Anthony McKeown (Labour Party) — Gamesley
Gillian Cross (Labour Party) — Hadfield North
Edward Siddall (Labour Party) — Hadfield South
Robert McKeown (Labour Party) — Hadfield South
Gillian Scott (Labour Party) — Hayfield
Charlotte Farrell (Green Party (E&W)) — Hope Valley
Joanna Collins (Green Party (E&W)) — Hope Valley
Damien Greenhalgh (Labour Party) — Howard Town
Godfrey Claff (Labour Party) — Howard Town
Peter Roberts (Conservative and Unionist) — Limestone Peak
Alan Barrow (Labour Party) — New Mills East
Ian Huddlestone (Labour Party) — New Mills East
Jennifer Benzer (Labour Party) — New Mills West
Simon Evans (Labour Party) — New Mills West
Adrian Hopkinson (Conservative and Unionist) — Old Glossop
Paul Hardy (Conservative and Unionist) — Old Glossop
Ollie Cross (Labour Party) — Padfield
Peter Inman (Labour Party) — Sett
Pamela Mackie (Labour Party) — Simmondley
Stewart Gardner (Labour Party) — Simmondley
Pauline Bell (Labour Party) — St John's
Fiona Sloman (Labour Party) — Stone Bench
Matt Taylor (Labour Party) — Stone Bench
Pam Reddy (Conservative and Unionist) — Temple
Rob Baker (Labour Party) — Tintwistle
David Lomax (Liberal Democrats) — Whaley Bridge
Jo Taylor (Labour Party) — Whaley Bridge
Neville Clarke (Independent / Other) — Whaley Bridge
Barbara Hastings-Asatourian (Labour Party) — Whitfield

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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Cite this page

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Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.