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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 South Derbyshire District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
0 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Jun 2015 to 29 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Woodville Works, Occupation Lane, Woodville, Swadlincote, DE11 8EX
Received 29 Sept 2020Shades Farm, Unnamed Road From Geary Lane To Town Farm, Bretby, Burton On Trent, DE15 0RD
Received 29 Sept 2020Land at SK2812 3088, Clifton Road, Netherseal, Swadlincote, DE12 8BT
Received 29 Sept 202043 Burton Road, Repton, Derby, DE65 6FN
Received 29 Sept 202010 Lansdowne Road, Swadlincote, DE11 9DZ
Received 29 Sept 20203 Richmond Court, High Street, Repton, Derby, DE65 6WS
Received 30 Sept 20205 Ivy Court, Hilton, Derby, DE65 5WD
Received 30 Sept 2020Morning Side, Woodshop Lane, Swarkestone, Derby, DE73 7JA
Received 30 Sept 2020Derwent Mouth Lock 1, Trent and Mersey Canal, Wilne Lane, DE72 2HP
Received 30 Sept 2020Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK Ltd, Unnamed Road leading from roundabout on A50 and A38 Interchange to Industrial Works, Burnaston, Derby, DE1 9TA
Received 30 Sept 2020The Stables, 1 Bretby Mews, Unnamed Road through Bretby Park, Bretby, Burton On Trent, DE15 0RB
Received 30 Sept 202045, Potter Street, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8DW
Received 30 Sept 2020Travis Perkins Trading Co Ltd, George Holmes Business Centre, George Holmes Way, Swadlincote, DE11 9DF
Received 30 Sept 2020The Pastures, Highfields Farm, Heage Lane, Etwall, Derby, DE65 6LS
Received 1 Oct 202052 Donington Drive, Woodville, Swadlincote, DE11 8AU
Received 7 Sept 202083 Wood Lane, Newhall, Swadlincote, DE11 0LX
Received 1 Oct 202027 Derby Road, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8FE
Received 1 Oct 2020Gorsty Fields Farm, Ashbourne Road, Church Broughton, Derby, DE65 5AT
Received 1 Oct 2020Land SK2829 0730, off Ivy Close, Willington, Derby
Received 1 Oct 2020Broomy Farm, Woodville Road, Hartshorne, Swadlincote
Received 1 Oct 2020122 Main Street, Repton, Derby, DE65 6FB
Received 2 Oct 20204 The Old Waterworks, Meadow Lane, Milton, Derby, DE65 6PL
Received 1 Oct 202076 Burton Road, Repton, Derby, DE65 6FN
Received 1 Oct 2020Ambaston lane Farm, Ambaston Lane, Ambaston, Derby, DE72 3EU
Received 2 Oct 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Derbyshire District 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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