Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
531 approved · 647 refused · 243 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Dec 2013 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Brett Martin Building Products Ltd Stephenson Road Staveley S43 3JP
Received 30 May 201715 Sudhall Close Newbold S41 8BX
Received 29 May 201745 Brockwell Lane Brockwell Chesterfield S40 4EA
Received 30 May 201791 Newbold Road Newbold S41 7PS
Received 30 May 201710 Sherbourne Avenue Newbold Derbyshire S41 8TL
Received 26 May 201735 Rose Hill Chesterfield S40 1TT
Received 31 May 201710 Newbold Drive Newbold S41 7AP
Received 31 May 2017Glenholm 544 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3AY
Received 29 May 201713 Old Hall Road Chesterfield S40 3RG
Received 1 Jun 20179 Highfield Avenue Newbold S41 7AZ
Received 1 Jun 201714 Spruce Close Chesterfield S40 3FG
Received 1 Jun 20179 Richmond Close Walton Derbyshire S40 3JH
Received 31 May 2017316 Ashgate Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4BW
Received 1 Jun 201726 Barholme Close Upper Newbold Derbyshire S41 8AB
Received 1 Jun 20171 Cromford Drive Staveley Derbyshire S43 3TB
Received 1 Jun 2017Staveley Hall Church Street Staveley Derbyshire S43 3TN
Received 1 Jun 201719A West Bars Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1AG
Received 2 Jun 2017Site Of Former Newbold Community School Newbold Road Newbold Derbyshire
Received 2 Jun 201714 Old Hall Road Chesterfield S40 3RG
Received 5 Jun 201781 Moorland View Road Walton S40 3DD
Received 5 Jun 201794 Hady Crescent Hady Derbyshire S41 0EA
Received 5 Jun 201719 Westbourne Grove Ashgate Chesterfield S40 3QD
Received 7 Jun 2017Penmore House Hasland Road Hasland Derbyshire S41 0SJ
Received 7 Jun 2017Coronation Garden Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 5 Jun 2017Records 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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