The promised land? This is the area being billed as the latest rural hotspot for well-off townies fleeing the nastier aspects of life in the city. But what's good for today's 'affluentials' is bad for the locals they are pricing out of the housing market. So, asks David Conn, is High Peak in Derbyshire really..

Well, who would have thought it? That an area close to Manchester, one of whose towns has become a byword for the blighted, nightmarish north, should now be held up […]