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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.
597 approved · 811 refused · 279 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Mar 2011 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Wikeley Way Brimington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 1BH
Received 1 Feb 2024Land To South Of Tom Lane and West Of Rectory Road Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 1 Feb 2024Eckington Road To Hague Lane Eckington Road Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 1 Feb 202429 Sycamore Avenue Boythorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2QA
Received 2 Feb 202423 Dale Bank Crescent New Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 2DN
Received 1 Feb 2024170 Old Hall Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1HQ
Received 2 Feb 2024Masonic Hall 72 Saltergate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1JR
Received 2 Feb 202427 Stephenson Place Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1XL
Received 2 Feb 2024341 and 343 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2BZ
Received 5 Feb 2024Land South Of Erin Road Junction The Grove Poolsbrook Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 2 Feb 2024Footpath Near Eyre Chapel Newbold Village Newbold Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8RJ
Received 6 Feb 2024404 Old Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3QF
Received 6 Feb 2024392 Ashgate Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4DD
Received 6 Feb 2024366 Brimington Road Tapton Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0TF
Received 6 Feb 2024Land At 46 Newbold Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7FJ
Received 7 Feb 202411 Old Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2RE
Received 7 Feb 2024Unit 1B Spectrum Mcgregors Way Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2WB
Received 7 Feb 2024The Croft 2A Seymour Lane Woodthorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3DA
Received 8 Feb 2024659 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3PA
Received 7 Feb 2024Chesterfield Model Engineering Society The Clubhouse Hady Hill Hady Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0EE
Received 7 Feb 202430 Littlemoor Crescent Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8QJ
Received 8 Feb 202439 Park Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2LP
Received 9 Feb 202415A Church Street North Old Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9QN
Received 9 Feb 2024Land Adj To 111 Holme Park Avenue Upper Newbold Derbyshire S41 8WU
Received 9 Feb 2024Records 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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