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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Ashfield District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Ashfield website
16,757 approved · 1,996 refused · 1,211 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 29 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land Adj40, Albert Street, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
Received Not publishedFormer Sara Lee Embody, Mansfield Road, Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 4HR
Received Not publishedMarket Store Car Park, South Street, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
Received Not publishedTrent Bus Depot, Junction Road, Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 5HF
Received Not publishedThe Lawn Pleasure Grounds, Lawn Lane, Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Received Not publishedResidential Development Land Off Alfreton Road, Alfreton Road, Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Received Not publishedSite For Residential Dev Land Off, Reform Street, Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Received Not publishedPaddock Area Land Off Alfreton Road, Alfreton Road, Underwood, Nottinghamshire
Received Not publishedLand Rear Of 66, Alexandra Street, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Received Not published15 Pye Hill Road, Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire, NG16 5LR
Received Not publishedLand At Edward Street, Edward Street, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Received Not published2 Felley Cottages, Felley Priory, Underwood, Nottinghamshire, NG16 5FJ
Received Not publishedAshfield Play Forum, Morven Avenue, Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 1AN
Received Not publishedThe Spinney, Nottingham Road, Harlow Wood, Nottinghamshire
Received Not publishedTelecom Mast, The Idlewells, Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Received Not publishedUnit 1, Park Lane Business Park, Park Lane, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 9GU
Received Not published7 Maple Drive, Harlow Wood, Nottinghamshire, NG18 4UY
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent Hazel Grove Nursing Home, Farleys Lane, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
Received Not published64 Beauvale Crescent, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, NG15 6PA
Received Not publishedSt Andrews Church Of England Primary School, Mansfield Road, Skegby, Nottinghamshire, NG17 3DW
Received Not publishedCroft Primary School, Station Road, Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 5FJ
Received Not publishedCroft Primary School, Station Road, Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 5FJ
Received Not published26 Ashgate Road, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, NG15 7UT
Received Not published125 Skegby Road, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 9FR
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Ashfield District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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