Understanding planning · 13 min read
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 · County council
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Derbyshire County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
2,864 approved · 69 refused · 332 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Feb 1962 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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South Normanton Sewage Treatment Works, Hilcote, Bolsover, Derbyshire, DE55 2EY
Received 7 Oct 2024Kilburn Junior School, The flat, Kilburn
Received 16 Apr 2007Heath Primary School, Heath Road Heath
Received 30 Apr 2003Mill Hill School, Peashill Road, Ripley
Received 25 Sept 2003South Normanton Nursery, Hamlet Lane, South Normanton
Received 17 Jan 2006Thornsett Primary School Playing Field, Portland Road, High Peak, Thornsett, SK22 4HD
Received 11 May 2026Simmondley Primary School, Pennine Road, Simmondley
Received 10 Oct 2007Ambergate Mill, Ripley Road, Ambergate, Belper, Derbyshire
Received 17 Dec 2004Norbert Dentressangle, Cat and Fiddle Lane, Ilkeston,DE7 6HE
Received 4 Jul 2013Egstow Quarry, Brassington Lane, off Bridge Street, Clay Cross
Received 18 Dec 2006Vital Earth Derby Ltd ,Blenheim Road, Ashbourne,DE6 1HA
Received 18 Nov 2010Overfields Barn, Pasture Lane, Brassington
Received 14 Aug 2008Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, The Green Road, Ashbourne
Received 23 Apr 2007Dovedale Primary School, Dovedale Avenue, Long Eaton,NG10 3HU
Received 30 Nov 201093a Sheffield Road, Chesterfield,S41 7JH
Received 22 Mar 2011Highfields School, Upper Lumsdale, Matlock
Received 18 Jun 2004Former Small Valves Building, Merlin Way, New Stanton,DE7 4RA
Received 29 Apr 20131 The Pastures, Duffield, Belper, DE56 4EX
Received 22 Oct 2025Florence Shipley Home, Market Street, Heanor,DE75 7AA
Received 14 Nov 2014Land off Littlewell Lane, Stanton by Dale
Received 27 Jul 200628 Woodland Grove, Old Tupton, Derbyshire, S42 6JQ
Received 14 Jul 2026Rock House, Flat 4, Derby Road, Cromford, Derbyshire, DE4 3RP
Received 13 Mar 2026TREES WITHIN HORSEWOOD, WALTON, CHESTERFIELD, S42 7LS
Received 1 Oct 2025Markham Energy Park & Depot M1, Commerce Park, Chesterfield,S44 5HS
Received 1 Mar 2012Records 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 Derbyshire County 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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