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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.
587 approved · 769 refused · 274 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Nov 2011 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Somersall Lane Somersall Derbyshire S40 3LA
Received 3 Oct 2022115 Storforth Lane Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0PZ
Received 2 Oct 2022Rowland Hill House, Block B Boythorpe Road Boythorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S49 1HQ
Received 3 Oct 202236A Houldsworth Drive Hady Derbyshire S41 0BS
Received 3 Oct 2022101 Whitecotes Lane Walton Derbyshire S40 3HJ
Received 3 Oct 2022Land To The East Of Linacre Road Holme Hall Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 4 Oct 2022Staveley Hall Church Street Staveley Derbyshire S43 3TN
Received 4 Oct 2022Staveley Hall Church Street Staveley Derbyshire S43 3TN
Received 4 Oct 202215 Foxwood Close Hasland Derbyshire S41 0LQ
Received 4 Oct 202233 Coupland Close Old Whittington Derbyshire S41 9TB
Received 5 Oct 202219 Mayfield Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3AJ
Received 6 Oct 202234 Miriam Avenue Somersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3NF
Received 7 Oct 202231 Storrs Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3QA
Received 7 Oct 202276 Broomfield Avenue Hasland Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0ND
Received 7 Oct 2022126 Broomfield Avenue Hasland Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0ND
Received 7 Oct 202262 Walgrove Road Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2DR
Received 10 Oct 2022Eastside Park, Unit 2 Eastside Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9BU
Received 10 Oct 202216 Chestnut Drive Hollingwood Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 2LZ
Received 10 Oct 2022152 - 154 High Street New Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 2AN
Received 10 Oct 2022BT Cellnet Telephone Exchange Saltergate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1UH
Received 10 Oct 2022Jet Petrol Filling Station and Premises High Street Brimington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 1DE
Received 10 Oct 2022Arnold Clark Motorstore Meltham Lane Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7LG
Received 11 Oct 2022Burger King Brimington Road North Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9BE
Received 11 Oct 2022670 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3NU
Received 11 Oct 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.
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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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