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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.
609 approved · 854 refused · 286 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Aug 2010 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Carnoustie Avenue Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3NN
Received 1 Oct 202477 Whitecotes Lane Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3HJ
Received 1 Oct 20247 Glenthorne Close Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3AR
Received 2 Oct 2024Land Adj 10 Old Houses Piccadilly Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0EH
Received 2 Oct 2024Land Adjacent To 130 Station Road Brimington Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 3 Oct 2024562 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3JS
Received 4 Oct 202419 Wimborne Crescent Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8PT
Received 4 Oct 20245 Foljambe Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1NN
Received 7 Oct 2024130 Spital Lane Spital Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0HN
Received 2 Oct 2024256 Ashgate Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4AW
Received 7 Oct 202478 St Augustines Mount Birdholme Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2RX
Received 7 Oct 202415 South Lodge Court Ashgate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3QG
Received 7 Oct 202433 High Street Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3UU
Received 7 Oct 2024Land To South Of Tom Lane and West Of Rectory Road Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 8 Oct 2024Former Inkersall Methodist Church Summerskill Green Inkersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3SR
Received 8 Oct 202454 Storrs Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3PZ
Received 8 Oct 2024Unit 11 Whitting Valley Road Trading Estate Whitting Valley Road Old Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9EY
Received 9 Oct 2024Unit 16 Whitting Valley Road Trading Estate Whitting Valley Road Old Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9EY
Received 9 Oct 2024Dunston Hole Farm, Dunston Hole Cottage Dunston Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9RL
Received 10 Oct 2024337 Ashgate Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4DB
Received 10 Oct 202422A Abercrombie Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7LW
Received 11 Oct 20248 Belvedere Close Somersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3LU
Received 14 Oct 202493 Newbold Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7PS
Received 14 Oct 202423 West Bars Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1AB
Received 15 Oct 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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