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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.
578 approved · 730 refused · 264 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jul 2012 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 At Pottery Lane East Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 8 Mar 2019Foxstone Close Staveley Derbyshire
Received 7 Mar 201910 Storrs Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3PY
Received 8 Mar 201936 Hady Lane Hady Derbyshire S41 0DF
Received 8 Mar 201916 Ashgate Avenue Ashgate Chesterfield S40 1JB
Received 11 Mar 2019Holly House School Church Street North Old Whittington Derbyshire S41 9QR
Received 7 Mar 201917 Linden Park Grove Chesterfield S40 1HY
Received 11 Mar 201912 Linden Park Grove Chesterfield S40 1HY
Received 11 Mar 2019Land To Rear Of 292 Manor Road Brimington S43 1NX
Received 12 Mar 2019122 High Street New Whittington S43 2AL
Received 12 Mar 2019Hady Primary School Hady Lane Hady Derbyshire S41 0DF
Received 12 Mar 20198A Stephenson Place Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1XL
Received 12 Mar 2019Denka U.K. Ltd Broombank Road Chesterfield Trading Estate Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9QJ
Received 13 Mar 2019Grangers International Enterprise Way Duckmanton Derbyshire S44 5FD
Received 13 Mar 20199 Bower Farm Road Old Whittington S41 9PR
Received 13 Mar 2019Fox View Stables Plover Hill Farm Wetlands Lane Brimington Derbyshire S43 1QG
Received 13 Mar 2019170 St Johns Road Newbold Derbyshire S41 8PE
Received 13 Mar 2019Rear Of 34 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2AQ
Received 13 Mar 2019Chesterfield And North Derbyshire Royal Hospital Chesterfield Road Calow S44 5BL
Received 14 Mar 2019Land At Whitebank Close Hasland Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 14 Mar 2019Former Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Station Sheffield Road Whittington Moor Derbyshire S41 8LF
Received 13 Mar 2019Rose Hill United Reform Church Rose Hill Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1JW
Received 14 Mar 2019Land To The West Of Bevan Drive Inkersall Derbyshire
Received 13 Mar 2019Gordon Lamb Land Rovers Discovery Way Whittington Moor S41 9EG
Received 15 Mar 2019Records 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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