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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.
594 approved · 792 refused · 277 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Woodthorpe Road Woodthorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3BZ
Received 16 Oct 20239 Woodthorpe Road Woodthorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3BZ
Received 16 Oct 202320 Somersall Lane Somersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3LA
Received 16 Oct 2023Rear Of Peel House Brimington Road Tapton Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7UG
Received 16 Oct 2023392 Ashgate Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4DD
Received 16 Oct 20236 Hartside Close Loundsley Green Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4LB
Received 16 Oct 202351 Woodmere Drive Old Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9TE
Received 17 Oct 202363 Ulverston Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8ED
Received 17 Oct 2023Former Chesterfield Hotel Malkin Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7UA
Received 17 Oct 202315 High Street Brimington Derbyshire S43 1DE
Received 17 Oct 2023Land At Sheepbridge Works Sheepbridge Lane Sheepbridge Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 18 Oct 20233 Water Meadow Lane Upper Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8XP
Received 18 Oct 20239 High Street New Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 2DX
Received 19 Oct 202325 Ringwood Avenue Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8RA
Received 19 Oct 2023Former Inkersall Methodist Church Summerskill Green Inkersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3SR
Received 20 Oct 2023West Garth 27 Church Street North Old Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9QN
Received 19 Oct 202316 Selby Close Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3HA
Received 20 Oct 202316 Selby Close Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3HA
Received 20 Oct 202376 Highfield Lane Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8AY
Received 23 Oct 2023Barrow Hill Railway Centre Campbell Drive Barrow Hill Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 2PR
Received 24 Oct 2023101 Brockwell Lane Brockwell Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4EG
Received 24 Oct 202323 Tennyson Avenue Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4SN
Received 25 Oct 20231 Ralph Road Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3PY
Received 25 Oct 2023Spire House Spire Walk Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2WG
Received 25 Oct 2023Records 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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