Rolleston on Dove Parish Council has taken significant steps in the past to protect the pleasant rural environment of the village. In the mid-sixties, it persuaded the former Tutbury Rural District Council to place a compulsory purchase order on Brook Hollows; at that time the lake was silted up and the area fenced with rusty corrugated iron sheets. The site has now passed into the ownership of East Staffordshire Borough Council and is maintained by that Council in collaboration with Rolleston Civic Trust.

In the early 1970's a transport business was in being at "The Croft" and a planning application was submitted to build an extra bridge across the Alderbrook to accommodate the heavy goods vehicles. The Staffordshire County Council (following a Public Inquiry) agreed to place a Compulsory Purchase Order on "The Croft" to enable the Parish Council to purchase the land and so obtain lasting protection for it.

The acquisition of the 20 acres of Craythorne recreational land was obtained at the acceptable environmental cost of 90 good quality houses as a local initiative without help from other local authorities.

These successes were contemporaneous with the local initiative to oppose the planning application made by the former Tutbury Rural District Council to convert the former railway line into a refuse tip - which was taken to an adjournment debate in the House of Commons and resulted in the Minister "calling in the Planning Application". Later the Parish Council was happy to acquire the site (jointly with Stretton Parish Council) with the assistance of East Staffordshire District Council for conversion to the Jinny Nature Trail - another site where volunteer labour plays an important part in community provision.

Local Authorities of three tiers together with much local voluntary effort have achieved great things. This Village Design Statement is one more step in that direction - it is the responsibility of all to make it succeed.