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.
532 approved · 647 refused · 243 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Tennyson Avenue Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4SN
Received 14 Jun 2017159 Moorland View Road Walton S40 3DD
Received 20 Jun 2017Unit 3 Seymour Link Road Woodthorpe Derbyshire S43 3FG
Received 20 Jun 201749 Woodmere Drive Old Whittington Derbyshire S41 9TE
Received 21 Jun 2017Land To The West Of Dunston Lane Newbold Derbyshire
Received 22 Jun 20177 Church Street Staveley Derbyshire S43 3TL
Received 21 Jun 20175 Barley Lane Holme Hall Chesterfield Derbyshire S42 7JA
Received 22 Jun 20175 Barley Lane Holme Hall Chesterfield Derbyshire S42 7JA
Received 22 Jun 2017Turnoaks Business Park Burley Close Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2UB
Received 23 Jun 2017Land Adjacent To Troughbrook Road Hollingwood S43 2JP
Received 23 Jun 201720A Avondale Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4TF
Received 23 Jun 20178 Redgrove Way Walton Derbyshire S40 3JN
Received 23 Jun 201722 Foxbrook Drive Walton Derbyshire S40 3JR
Received 26 Jun 201782 Walton Road Walton Derbyshire S40 3BY
Received 26 Jun 201710 Deerlands Road Ashgate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4DF
Received 27 Jun 2017Chesterfield And North Derbyshire Royal Hospital Chesterfield Road Calow S44 5BL
Received 28 Jun 2017Hasland Hotel 51 Calow Lane Hasland Derbyshire S41 0AX
Received 28 Jun 20171 Grove Farm Close Brimington Derbyshire S43 1QA
Received 28 Jun 2017Killis Cleaners 29 Sheffield Road Stonegravels Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7LR
Received 28 Jun 201716 Morris Avenue Newbold Derbyshire S41 7BA
Received 28 Jun 2017290 Hady Hill Hady S41 0BJ
Received 29 Jun 201727 Willow Garth Road Newbold S41 8BL
Received 29 Jun 2017Land South Of Worksop Road Mastin Moor Derbyshire
Received 30 Jun 20173 Marchwood Close Brockwell Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4DT
Received 30 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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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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