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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.
628 approved · 998 refused · 313 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Mar 2008 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Plot 7 West Enterprise Way Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire S44 5HY
Received 21 Apr 2026Plot 7 West Enterprise Way Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire S44 5HY
Received 21 Apr 2026Land To The West Of Factory Street Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 22 Apr 2026Markham Vale Electric Forecourt Enterprise Way Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire S44 5FD
Received 22 Apr 2026Veolia Environmental Services Units 11A and 11B Sheepbridge Works Sheepbridge Lane Sheepbridge Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9RX
Received 21 Apr 2026Land Between 1 Goyt Terrace and Substation Goyt Side Road Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 23 Apr 202678 Sycamore Road Hollingwood Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 2HH
Received 23 Apr 2026Building 3 Brimington Road North Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9BE
Received 24 Apr 2026Former Tiffanys 2 - 8 Church Lane Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1SD
Received 23 Apr 202613 Wimborne Crescent Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8PT
Received 24 Apr 2026Land To The East Of 221 Hady Hill Hady Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0BL
Received 27 Apr 2026Land South Of Worksop Road Mastin Moor Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 27 Apr 2026Car Wash To The Rear Of 34 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2AQ
Received 27 Apr 202626 Danby Avenue Old Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9NJ
Received 27 Apr 2026Saltergate Dental Care 115 Saltergate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1NF
Received 27 Apr 2026Land Adj 20 Rushen Mount Birdholme Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2JU
Received 28 Apr 202615 Dukes Drive Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8QB
Received 29 Apr 2026Land To The West Of Factory Street Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 29 Apr 202687 Ashgate Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4AH
Received 29 Apr 202612 Booker Close Inkersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3WA
Received 30 Apr 2026491 Chatsworth Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3AU
Received 30 Apr 2026Queens Park Annexe, Tennis Courts At Boythorpe Avenue Boythorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2BF
Received 1 May 2026Lyndhurst Chesterfield Road Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3RX
Received 1 May 2026Land Accessed From Farndale Road Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 1 May 2026Records 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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