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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578 approved · 734 refused · 268 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Penmore House Penmore Business Centre Hasland Road Hasland Derbyshire S41 0SJ
Received 13 Aug 2019St Marys R C High School Newbold Road Newbold Derbyshire S41 8AG
Received 13 Aug 2019Trevilla 73 Hady Hill Hady S41 0EE
Received 14 Aug 2019Land Adjacent To 1 Bellhouse View Bellhouse Lane Staveley S43 3AJ
Received 14 Aug 20196 Wateringbury Grove Staveley S43 3TS
Received 14 Aug 20195 Park Hall Avenue Walton Derbyshire S42 7LR
Received 14 Aug 2019267 Hasland Road Hasland Derbyshire S41 0AA
Received 14 Aug 20193B Seymour Link Road Woodthorpe Derbyshire S43 3FG
Received 14 Aug 201944 Pomegranate Road Newbold Derbyshire S41 7BN
Received 14 Aug 2019St Josephs Rc Church Chesterfield Road Staveley S43 3QF
Received 14 Aug 2019Speeds Plastics Wheatbridge Road Chesterfield S40 2AB
Received 14 Aug 201919 Cromdale Avenue New Whittington Derbyshire S43 2DH
Received 15 Aug 201960 Gloucester Road Stonegravels Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7DG
Received 15 Aug 2019Land At The Brushes Sheffield Road Sheepbridge Derbyshire
Received 15 Aug 201934 Hillside Drive Walton Derbyshire S40 2DB
Received 15 Aug 2019Plot 5 Harper Way Duckmanton Derbyshire
Received 15 Aug 20196 Ashgate Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4AA
Received 19 Aug 201960 Rhodesia Road Chesterfield S40 3AL
Received 19 Aug 2019Land At Rowsley Crescent Staveley Derbyshire
Received 19 Aug 2019Land Adj Unit 3 Burley Close Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 19 Aug 201921 Spring Wood Close Newbold Derbyshire S41 8BS
Received 19 Aug 2019501 Newbold Road Newbold Derbyshire S41 8AE
Received 19 Aug 2019Land To The North Of 8 Court Place Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3RJ
Received 19 Aug 2019McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Markham Vale Services Enterprise Way Duckmanton Derbyshire S44 5HB
Received 15 Aug 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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