Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
580 approved · 757 refused · 272 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
59 Calow Lane Hasland Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0AX
Received 7 Mar 20228 Treeneuk Gardens Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3FH
Received 7 Mar 2022Land Adj 20 Harehill Road Grangewood Derbyshire S40 2JA
Received 8 Mar 2022Junction At St Helens Close and Newbold Road Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 9 Mar 2022Former 9 and 11 Paisley Close Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3NS
Received 9 Mar 202228 Kinder Road Inkersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3HR
Received 10 Mar 2022Methodist Church Upper Moor Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3NR
Received 9 Mar 2022Land At Cranleigh Road Woodthorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3BH
Received 11 Mar 2022Green Farm 175 High Street Old Whittington Derbyshire S41 9LH
Received 11 Mar 20225 Hastings Close Newbold Derbyshire S41 8RH
Received 14 Mar 2022107 Windermere Road Newbold Derbyshire S41 8DS
Received 14 Mar 2022The Trumpeter Harehill Road Grangewood Derbyshire S40 2NG
Received 14 Mar 202225 Swaddale Avenue Tapton Derbyshire S41 0SX
Received 14 Mar 202215 Selby Close Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3HA
Received 14 Mar 2022Second and Third Floor West Bars House West Bars Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1AQ
Received 14 Mar 20227 Pettyclose Lane Tapton Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0TJ
Received 15 Mar 2022Apple Trees Lancaster Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8TP
Received 15 Mar 2022195 Somersall Lane Somersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3NA
Received 16 Mar 2022Aston Court Hassop Road Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3YW
Received 16 Mar 2022232 Old Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3QN
Received 16 Mar 202238 Gladstone Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4TE
Received 15 Mar 202218 Dorset Drive Brimington Derbyshire S43 1DS
Received 16 Mar 202219 Newbold Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7PG
Received 17 Mar 20222-4 Knifesmithgate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1TE
Received 17 Mar 2022Records 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage