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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.
563 approved · 677 refused · 252 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Gladstone Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4TE
Received 29 Oct 2018160-162 Derby Road Chesterfield S40 2EW
Received 30 Oct 20182 Foljambe Avenue Walton Chesterfield S40 3EW
Received 30 Oct 2018The Old Rectory 408 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3BQ
Received 30 Oct 2018Netherleigh 34 Netherleigh Road Ashgate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3QJ
Received 30 Oct 2018Site Of Former Newbold Community School Newbold Road Newbold S41 8RJ
Received 30 Oct 2018Victoria Park Duke Street Staveley Derbyshire S43 3PD
Received 30 Oct 2018Hady Miners Welfare Club Houldsworth Drive Hady S41 0BS
Received 31 Oct 201852 Gloucester Road Stonegravels Chesterfield S41 7DG
Received 31 Oct 201874 Wain Avenue Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0FB
Received 31 Oct 2018L Etacq 37 Belvedere Avenue Walton Derbyshire S40 3HY
Received 31 Oct 2018Rear Of 14 Avenue Road Whittington Moor Derbyshire S41 8TA
Received 31 Oct 201820 Franklyn Drive Staveley Derbyshire S43 3YA
Received 31 Oct 20188 High Street New Whittington Derbyshire S43 2DX
Received 1 Nov 201825 Coupland Close Old Whittington Derbyshire S41 9TB
Received 1 Nov 201815 Wayside Brimington Derbyshire S43 1BQ
Received 1 Nov 2018Plot 6 Markham Vale Enterprise Way Duckmanton Derbyshire
Received 31 Oct 2018Former Perrys Garage Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2BJ
Received 2 Nov 20184 Thorpleigh Road Woodthorpe Derbyshire S43 3BJ
Received 2 Nov 2018Oldfield Farm Wetlands Lane Brimington Derbyshire S43 1QG
Received 5 Nov 2018Oldfield Farm Wetlands Lane Brimington Derbyshire S43 1QG
Received 5 Nov 2018Land To The East Of 115 Bamford Road Inkersall Derbyshire S43 3DE
Received 5 Nov 2018Land To The East Of Rectory Road Duckmanton Derbyshire
Received 6 Nov 201898A Derby Road Chesterfield S40 2EF
Received 6 Nov 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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