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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.
561 approved · 675 refused · 252 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 2013 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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 Adjoining 20 Harehill Road Grangewood S40 2JA
Received 30 Aug 2018Broomhill Farm Broomhill Road Old Whittington Derbyshire S41 9EA
Received 29 Aug 2018Land At Worksop Road Woodthorpe Derbyshire
Received 30 Aug 2018Land At East Of A61Known As Chesterfield Waterside Brimington Road Tapton Derbyshire
Received 31 Aug 2018Catherine Court School Board Lane Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1HA
Received 31 Aug 201838 Mansfeldt Road Newbold S41 7BW
Received 31 Aug 2018Land Adj 21 Bellhouse Lane Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 3 Sept 20189D Holywell Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7SA
Received 3 Sept 20189 Norbriggs Road Woodthorpe Derbyshire S43 3BW
Received 31 Aug 20186 Ashgate Road Chesterfield S40 4AA
Received 3 Sept 2018Poolsbrook Hotel Staveley Road Poolsbrook S43 3LF
Received 3 Sept 2018Barrow Hill Primary School Station Road Barrow Hill S43 2PG
Received 4 Sept 2018Markham Vale Services Mcdonalds Restaurants Ltd Markham Lane Duckmanton S44 5HB
Received 4 Sept 2018700 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3PB
Received 4 Sept 2018Land Off Eastside Park Eastside Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9BU
Received 5 Sept 2018Development Site At Eastside Park Eastside Road Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 5 Sept 2018Hady House 75 Hady Hill Hady S41 0EE
Received 5 Sept 2018Development Site At Eastside Park Eastside Road Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 5 Sept 2018Land North Of Bridle Road Woodthorpe Derbyshire
Received 4 Sept 201823 Bridle Road Woodthorpe Derbyshire S43 3BY
Received 4 Sept 2018Walton Hospital Whitecotes Lane Walton Derbyshire S40 3HW
Received 4 Sept 2018Chesterfield Model Engineering Society Hady Hill Hady Derbyshire S41 0EE
Received 5 Sept 201811 Netherleigh Road Ashgate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3QJ
Received 6 Sept 2018Land North Of Foxwood Road Sheepbridge Lane Sheepbridge Derbyshire
Received 7 Sept 2018Records 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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