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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.
617 approved · 937 refused · 300 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Grove Hill 136 St Johns Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8TW
Received 9 Sept 2025Sports Pavilion Hady Lane Hady Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 9 Sept 2025100 Moorland View Road Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3DF
Received 9 Sept 2025Land To The East Of Linacre Road Holme Hall Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 10 Sept 2025Carberry Wood 7 Oakfield Avenue Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3LE
Received 10 Sept 202557 Acorn Ridge Walton Chesterfield S42 7HF
Received 10 Sept 2025Whitestone Solar Farm - 1 South Of Conisbrough, 2 East Of Brinsworth, 3 West and North Of Harthill
Received 9 Sept 202532 Brookside Glen Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3PF
Received 10 Sept 2025110 Walton Road Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3BU
Received 10 Sept 202519 Wimborne Crescent Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8PT
Received 11 Sept 2025Newbold Back Lane Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 12 Sept 202518 Ardsley Road Ashgate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4DG
Received 12 Sept 2025Land South Of Worksop Road Mastin Moor Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 12 Sept 2025Former Avondale Surgery 3 - 5 Avondale Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4TF
Received 12 Sept 202514 Booker Close Inkersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3WA
Received 15 Sept 202543 Brockwell Lane Brockwell Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4EA
Received 16 Sept 2025Land To South Of Tom Lane and West Of Rectory Road Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 16 Sept 202549 Wentworth Avenue Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3JB
Received 9 Sept 20254 Seymour Lane Woodthorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3DA
Received 16 Sept 2025Former Car Park To The North Of Reservoir House West Street Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 18 Sept 2025Former North East Derbyshire County Council Council House Saltergate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1LF
Received 19 Sept 2025115 Saltergate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1NF
Received 19 Sept 20256 Highfield Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7EY
Received 19 Sept 2025166 Manor Road Brimington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 1NW
Received 19 Sept 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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