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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Derbyshire District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Derbyshire website
0 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Sept 2008 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Land at New House Farm, Etwall Road, Mickleover, Derby, DE3 0DN
Received 12 Aug 2026Land west of / adjacent to Newhall United Football Club, St Johns Drive, Newhall, Swadlincote DE11 0TG
Received 9 Aug 2026Land between 79 and 81 Meadow Lane, Newhall, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, DE11 0UW
Received 9 Aug 2026Land East of Sunningdale, Unnamed Road From The Green To Radbourne Common, Dalbury Lees, DE6 5BE
Received 6 Aug 202689 Spinney Hill, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8LX
Received 13 Aug 2026Park View, Etwall Road, Egginton, Derby, DE65 6GW
Received 13 Aug 202658 Valley Road, Overseal, Swadlincote, DE12 6NN
Received 13 Aug 2026Sandbanks, Cockshut Lane, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8DG
Received 13 Aug 2026Sandbanks, Cockshut Lane, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8DG
Received 13 Aug 2026Manor Oak, Sleepy Lane, Kings Newton, DE73 8BU
Received 14 Aug 20263 Midland Road, Swadlincote, DE11 0AG
Received 14 Aug 2026Hilton House Mews, Mill Lane, Hilton, Derby, DE65 5GP
Received 14 Aug 2026The Close, Church Square, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8JH
Received 12 Aug 202667 Hall Lane, Willington, Derby, DE65 6DR
Received 17 Aug 2026Hillside Farm, Radbourne Common, Dalbury Lees, Ashbourne, DE6 4LX
Received 17 Aug 202635 Chapel Street, Ticknall, Derby, DE73 7JY
Received 14 Aug 2026Ivanhoe House, Main Street, Smisby, Ashby De La Zouch, LE65 2TY
Received 18 Aug 2026Drakelow Park Flying High Academy, Marley Way, Drakelow, DE15 9WQ
Received 18 Aug 2026Land North of Woodside Farm on the West side of Woodyard Lane, Foston, Derby, DE65 5PY
Received 18 Aug 20261 Church Cottages, Church Lane, Sutton on the Hill, Ashbourne, DE6 5JA
Received 5 Aug 20262 Church Cottages, Church Lane, Sutton on the Hill, Ashbourne, DE6 5JA
Received 5 Aug 2026The Firs Farm, Firs Farm Nursery, Scropton Road, Hatton, Derby, DE65 5PN
Received 19 Aug 2026133 Twyford Road, Willington, Derby, DE65 6DG
Received 19 Aug 202618 High Street, Ticknall, Derby, DE73 7JH
Received 20 Aug 2026Records 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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