About Us

High Peak Borough Council is a local authority that occupies the North West of Derbyshire, covering an area of 208 square miles or nearly a fifth of the county (the second biggest district in Derbyshire after Derbyshire Dales). 30% of the district is rural.

It serves 90,900 residents (2021 Census) living in the towns of Buxton, Glossop, New Mills and Whaley Bridge, and surrounding villages that fall within 15 parishes.

The area is important for tourism and includes a large part of the Peak District National Park including Castleton (Winnats Pass, Mam Tor and the Blue John mines) and Edale (start of the Pennine Way and close to Kinder Scout; the highest point in Derbyshire, the Peak District and the East Midlands at 636m above sea level).

The Council came into being on 1 April 1974, replacing six districts.

The Council provides a wide range of services with the key ones being the economy and regeneration, planning and building control, having its own housing stock, supporting homeless people, waste collection and recycling, parks and open spaces, environmental health, electoral administration, leisure services, housing benefit and council tax reduction, collection of council tax and business rates, and maintaining car parks.

The Council has 43 elected councillors representing 28 wards. Find out more about the political composition of the Council and its Senior Management Structure

The Council is comprised of Councillors and Officers. The Councillors are democratically elected representatives responsible for setting the policy direction and budgets of the Council. Officers support the work of the Councillors. The Council receives its funding through the following primary sources: council tax, business rates, fees and charges, and specific grant funding.

Please click here to view the Borough Plan 2023-27.

• Since 2008, High Peak Borough Council and Staffordshire Moorlands District Council have worked together in a formal Alliance, sharing a senior management team with the majority of staff working for both councils, or for Alliance companies` Alliance Leisure (leisure centres), Alliance Norse (housing repairs and maintenance, caretaking and cleaning) and Alliance Environmental Services (waste and recycling collection, street cleansing, and parks and grounds).