Almost 50 years ago there were calls for High Peak Borough Council to delay giving the go-ahead for a housing development in Glossop.
In the summer of 1976 the Glossop Chronicle was reporting proposals for a 122 acre site south of Sheffield Road.
A local action group was saying that the council should use every power available to them to ‘control’ any development until the latest Derbyshire Structural Plan had been approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment.
The report did not give the exact location of the site, however the group claimed there were sufficient housing sites in Simmondley, Whitfield, Hadfield and Charlestown, to provide sufficient space for house building needs until the late 1980s.
It was pointed out that by attracting more people to Glossop where there was already a shortage of jobs, the council would be acting against its policy of becoming, as far as possible, an area self-sufficient in employment.
Although that 122 acre site was not identified, was it the future home of Shirebrook Park, whose main entrance off Sheffield Road, is by Shire Bridge which carries a stone marked 1981?
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