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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.
614 approved · 902 refused · 293 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
30 Newbridge Lane Brimington Derbyshire S43 1LY
Received 15 Apr 202554 Storrs Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3PZ
Received 16 Apr 2025Land North Of Markham Vale Environment Centre Markham Lane Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 16 Apr 2025410A Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3BQ
Received 16 Apr 202599 Ashgate Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4AH
Received 17 Apr 2025Land South Of Worksop Road Mastin Moor Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 18 Apr 20251 Loxley Close Ashgate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4DQ
Received 21 Apr 2025Russell House 16 Gladstone Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4TE
Received 22 Apr 2025Dunston Hole Cottage Dunston Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9RL
Received 24 Apr 202525 Porter Street Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3UY
Received 25 Apr 202530 Cemetery Terrace Brimington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 1AA
Received 28 Apr 2025414 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3BQ
Received 29 Apr 2025109 Whitecotes Lane Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3HJ
Received 28 Apr 2025Market Hall Market Place Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1AR
Received 28 Apr 2025Whittington Moor Nursery and Infant Academy Sheffield Road Whittington Moor Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8NF
Received 29 Apr 2025The Mile 136 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2AR
Received 25 Apr 202553 Barton Crescent Holme Hall Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4UH
Received 28 Apr 2025Whitestone Solar Farm Rotherham
Received 24 Apr 2025Tapton House Brimington Road Tapton Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0TD
Received 30 Apr 2025Tapton House Brimington Road Tapton Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0TD
Received 30 Apr 2025Land At Garage Site Sanforth Street Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 1 May 2025281 Hady Hill Hady Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0BL
Received 2 May 202510 Redgrove Way Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3JN
Received 2 May 2025Unit 15 Foxwood Industrial Park Foxwood Road Sheepbridge Derbyshire S41 9RN
Received 30 Apr 2025Records 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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