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.
535 approved · 650 refused · 243 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Site Of Former Newbold Community School Newbold Road Newbold Derbyshire
Received 10 Aug 2017369A Hasland Road Hasland S41 0AQ
Received 10 Aug 201797 Station Road Old Whittington Derbyshire S41 9AW
Received 10 Aug 2017503 Newbold Road Newbold Derbyshire S41 8AE
Received 10 Aug 2017Unit 2 Armytage Industrial Estate Station Road Old Whittington Derbyshire
Received 11 Aug 2017The Cricketers Inn Stand Road Newbold Derbyshire S41 8SJ
Received 11 Aug 2017Land Off William Street North Old Whittington Derbyshire
Received 11 Aug 2017Room 27 Dunston House Dunston Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9QD
Received 11 Aug 2017139 Hunloke Avenue Boythorpe Derbyshire S40 3EA
Received 11 Aug 201727 Albion Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1LJ
Received 11 Aug 2017Land Adjacent To, 12 Cavendish Street North Old Whittington Derbyshire S41 9DH
Received 14 Aug 201724 Miriam Avenue Somersall S40 3NF
Received 14 Aug 2017Dunston Inn Dunston Lane Newbold S41 8HA
Received 15 Aug 2017The Rectory Church Street Staveley Derbyshire S43 3TN
Received 15 Aug 2017Plot 1 South Markham Vale Employment Growth Zone Markham Lane Duckmanton Derbyshire
Received 15 Aug 201748 Glenthorne Close Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3AR
Received 15 Aug 201747 St Thomas Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3AH
Received 15 Aug 2017Multi Storey Car Park Saltergate Chesterfield S40 1UL
Received 16 Aug 2017Land At Former Railway Line Seymour Link Road Woodthorpe Derbyshire
Received 17 Aug 2017Chesterfield College Infirmary Road Chesterfield S41 7NG
Received 18 Aug 2017The Rectory Church Street Staveley Derbyshire S43 3TN
Received 15 Aug 2017Marine House Dunston Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8NY
Received 18 Aug 201745 Brockwell Lane Brockwell Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4EA
Received 18 Aug 201737 Holywell Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7SH
Received 18 Aug 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
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.
Check collection coverage