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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Chesterfield Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
480 approved · 614 refused · 237 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Dec 2013 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
58 Miriam Avenue Somersall Derbyshire S40 3NF
Received 16 Dec 20152 Hady Lane Hady Derbyshire S41 0DF
Received 16 Dec 2015Off Street Parking For 1 - 48 Devonshire Close Staveley Derbyshire
Received 16 Dec 2015Laurentine Villa 1 Fenland Way Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3RH
Received 17 Dec 2015Garden To Rear Of 68 Dunston Road Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 17 Dec 20151 High Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1PS
Received 17 Dec 2015Woodland Hady Primary School Hady Lane Hady Derbyshire S41 0DF
Received 18 Dec 2015193 Somersall Lane Somersall Derbyshire S40 3NA
Received 18 Dec 2015Proposed Site For Advertising Hoardings On Land Owned By Chesterfield Golf Club Whitecotes Lane Walton Derbyshire
Received 21 Dec 201510 Moorhay Close Upper Newbold Derbyshire S41 8XF
Received 21 Dec 2015Wallis Barracks Boythorpe Road Boythorpe Derbyshire S40 2NH
Received 21 Dec 201510 Walgrove Road Walton Derbyshire S40 2DR
Received 22 Dec 20151 Hardwick Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7ND
Received 22 Dec 2015Markham Employment Growth Zone Markham Lane Duckmanton Derbyshire S44 5HS
Received 23 Dec 2015Land To The Rear Of 570 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3JS
Received 23 Dec 2015Former Walton Works Factory Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2BN
Received 23 Dec 2015Plot 1 South Markham Vale Employment Growth Zone Markham Lane Duckmanton Derbyshire
Received 23 Dec 2015Plot 1 South Markham Vale Employment Growth Zone Markham Lane Duckmanton Derbyshire
Received 23 Dec 2015Development Land West Of Loundsley Green Road Loundsley Green Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 23 Dec 2015Site Of Former Sheepbridge Sports and Social Club 202 Newbold Road Newbold Derbyshire
Received 23 Dec 2015Site Of Former Sheepbridge Sports and Social Club 202 Newbold Road Newbold Derbyshire
Received 23 Dec 2015Ringwood Centre Victoria Street Brimington Derbyshire S43 1HY
Received 23 Dec 2015Whittington Sewage Works Station Lane Old Whittington Derbyshire S41 9EY
Received 23 Dec 2015193 Somersall Lane Somersall Derbyshire S40 3NA
Received 29 Dec 2015Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Chesterfield Borough 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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