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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.
629 approved · 1,018 refused · 328 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Clean Spark Renewables Holbeck Close Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7XH
Received 29 Jul 2026Market Hall Market Place Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 1AR
Received 29 Jul 202616 Moorland View Road Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3DE
Received 30 Jul 2026178 Broomhill Road Old Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9EB
Received 30 Jul 2026Erin Landfill Site Markham Lane Duckmanton Chesterfield Derbyshire S44 5HS
Received 29 Jul 2026One Stop Chesterfield Road Staveley Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3RX
Received 30 Jul 202644 Staunton Close Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 2FE
Received 30 Jul 20263 Church Street North Old Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9QN
Received 31 Jul 20261 Green Farm Croft 159 High Street Old Whittington Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9LH
Received 31 Jul 2026Upper Close 17 Somersall Lane Somersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3LA
Received 31 Jul 2026Dunston Hall Dunston Road Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 9RL
Received 3 Aug 202617 Lodge Place Inkersall Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 3DU
Received 3 Aug 202658 Laurel Crescent Hollingwood Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 2LT
Received 4 Aug 202685 Manor Road Brimington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 1NN
Received 4 Aug 20264 Dalewood Close Hady Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0DD
Received 4 Aug 202678 Whitecotes Lane Walton Chesterfield Derbyshire S40 3HL
Received 4 Aug 20266 Burrows Way Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 1FR
Received 4 Aug 2026Former Walton Works and Boythorpe Works Factory Street Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 5 Aug 2026Former Walton Works and Boythorpe Works Factory Street Chesterfield Derbyshire
Received 5 Aug 2026188 Manor Road Brimington Chesterfield Derbyshire S43 1NW
Received 5 Aug 2026134 St Johns Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 8TW
Received 5 Aug 202663 The Green Hasland Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 0LW
Received 6 Aug 2026Premier Inn Tapton Lock Hill Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7NJ
Received 6 Aug 2026Premier Inn Tapton Lock Hill Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7NJ
Received 6 Aug 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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