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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578 approved · 743 refused · 268 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jul 2012 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Staveley Miners Welfare Fc Inkersall Road Staveley Derbyshire S43 3WL
Received 6 Mar 2020400 Old Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3QF
Received 6 Mar 20202 Woodbridge Rise Walton Derbyshire S40 3LL
Received 6 Mar 2020Lidl Foljambe Road Chesterfield S40 1NJ
Received 6 Mar 2020The Green Nursing Home 45 The Green Hasland Derbyshire S41 0LW
Received 6 Mar 2020Inkersall Farm Inkersall Road Staveley Derbyshire S43 3YH
Received 4 Mar 2020161 Langer Lane Birdholme Derbyshire S40 2JW
Received 9 Mar 202016 Wimborne Crescent Newbold Derbyshire S41 8PS
Received 9 Mar 202014B Spital Lane Spital Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0HJ
Received 10 Mar 20206 Ashgate Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4AA
Received 6 Mar 2020Star Inn 422 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield S40 3BD
Received 10 Mar 2020Walton Villa 32 Matlock Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S42 7LD
Received 10 Mar 2020Land North Of 87 High Street and West Of 3 Ashleigh Close Old Whittington Derbyshire
Received 10 Mar 2020360 Dunston Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9RL
Received 12 Mar 2020Lidl Foljambe Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1NJ
Received 12 Mar 2020Lidl Foljambe Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1NJ
Received 12 Mar 202017 Hazel Drive Walton Derbyshire S40 3EN
Received 13 Mar 2020Barrel Inn 249 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2BL
Received 13 Mar 20202 Wharf Lane Chesterfield S41 7NE
Received 13 Mar 20202 Wharf Lane Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7NE
Received 13 Mar 2020Land At The Brushes Sheffield Road Sheepbridge Derbyshire
Received 12 Mar 20206 Steeple Grange Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0HU
Received 16 Mar 202010A Marsden Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1JY
Received 16 Mar 2020Newbold C Of E School Cranborne Road Newbold S41 8PF
Received 17 Mar 2020Records 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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