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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628 approved · 1,001 refused · 313 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
37 Oakfield Avenue Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3LE
Received 13 May 202620 Westfield Gardens Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3SN
Received 13 May 202623A Mansfield Road Hasland Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0JE
Received 14 May 2026Land To South Of Tom Lane and West Of Rectory Road Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 18 May 202652A Lowgates Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3TT
Received 18 May 2026Former Devonshire Hotel 17 Occupation Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8TH
Received 18 May 20263A Wharf Lane Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7NE
Received 18 May 2026Unit 3B Seymour Link Road Woodthorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3FG
Received 19 May 202615 Springfield Avenue Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1DJ
Received 19 May 2026Land On The South Side Of Whittington Road Barrow Hill Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 21 May 2026Land Off Dunston Road Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 22 May 2026573 Newbold Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8AA
Received 22 May 202615 High Street Brimington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 1DE
Received 22 May 2026Land At North East To Markham Vale and Employment Site and M1 and The South West Of B6419 Seymour Link Road Woodthorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 26 May 2026Land South Of Worksop Road Mastin Moor Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 26 May 2026Pomegranate Theatre Corporation Street Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7TX
Received 26 May 2026St Johns Farm Bridle Road Woodthorpe Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3BY
Received 26 May 2026Walton Dam House 25 Walton Road Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3DN
Received 27 May 2026Land South Of Worksop Road Mastin Moor Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 27 May 2026Unit 4C Horizon 29 Buttermilk Lane Bolsover Derbyshire
Received 27 May 2026Land To South Of Tom Lane and West Of Rectory Road Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 29 May 202615 Balmoak Lane Tapton Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0TH
Received 28 May 20261 Treeneuk Close Ashgate Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3RR
Received 29 May 202621 Ashgate Valley Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 4AX
Received 1 Jun 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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