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2,864 approved · 69 refused · 332 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shirebrook Small Business Centre, Vernon Street, Shirebrook
Received 26 Jul 2006Staveley Landfill Site, Hall Lane, Staveley
Received 18 Nov 2004Peak Buildings, Terrace Road, Buxton
Received 9 Jan 2009Leys Junior School, Flowery Leys Lane, Alfreton,DE55 7HA
Received 18 Oct 2018Morton Primary School, Main Road, Morton,DE55 6HH
Received 8 May 2018South Wingfield Primary School, Church Lane, South Wingfield, Alfreton,DE55 7NJ
Received 20 May 2016Hilltop Infant and Nursery School, Wyaston Road, Ashbourne,DE6 1NB
Received 9 Mar 2017Fairfield Infant and Nursery School, Bench Road, Buxton
Received 10 Nov 2005Rear Hallams Garage, New Mills Road, Hayfield
Received 8 Feb 2005Ambergate Primary School, Toadmoor Lane, Ambergate, Belper
Received 17 Dec 20041 TAWNEY CLOSE, TANSLEY, DE4 5HA
Received 28 Jul 2026Ripley Sewage Treatment Works
Received 29 Jul 2005Somercotes Infant School, Nottingham Road, Alfreton, ,DE55 4LY
Received 24 Jan 2014Apollo Engineering, off Derby Road, Marehay, Ripley
Received 10 Oct 2005Grange Mill Quarry, Grangemill, Nr Wirksworth, Derbyshire,DE4 4HU
Received 4 Dec 2012Etwall Composting Facility, Boundary Road, off Etwall Road, Etwall, Derbyshire
Received 17 May 2005Longmoor Primary School, Newstead Road, Long Eaton
Received 25 Jan 2005Land to South East of Oaklands Farm, Walton on Trent
Received 23 Oct 2003Milton STW, Meadow Lane, Milton,DE65 6EH
Received 7 May 2014Etwall Library, Eggington Road, Etwall
Received 21 Jan 2005Arkwright Opencast Colliery, Deepsick Lane, Arkwright,S44 5DN
Received 3 Jan 2014Belper School, Kilburn Road, Belper
Received 20 Jul 2005Park House Primary School, Rupert Street, CHESTERFIELD,S45 8DB
Received 6 May 2009Friesland School, Nursery Avenue, Sandiacre
Received 20 Jul 2005Records 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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