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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0 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn.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: 10 Apr 2006 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Land to the rear of 21 Market Place, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8DS
Received 9 Sept 2025Bannels Lane Farm, Bannells Lane, Mickleover Derby, DE3 0DN
Received 9 Sept 202533 Potter Street, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8DW
Received 10 Sept 2025Hillside Cottage, Dish Lane, Sutton on the Hill, Derby, Ashbourne, DE6 5JA
Received 10 Sept 2025Melbourne Library, High Street, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8GF
Received 10 Sept 202542 Monsom Lane, Repton, Derby DE65 6FX
Received 4 Sept 202517 Market Place, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8DS
Received 10 Sept 20255 Park Close, Linton, Swadlincote, DE12 6QB
Received 11 Sept 202548 Main Street, Etwall, Derby DE65 6LP
Received 11 Jul 2025Trent House, 56 Main Street, Walton-on-Trent, Swadlincote, DE12 8LZ
Received 11 Sept 202518 Bells End Road, Walton-on-Trent, Swadlincote, DE12 8ND
Received 11 Sept 20251 Scropton Road, Hatton, Derby, DE65 5DS
Received 11 Sept 2025The Barn, Dalbury Lees, Ashbourne, DE6 5RH
Received 11 Sept 202538 Ashton Drive, Boulton Moor, Derby, DE24 5DB
Received 11 Sept 2025Land at SK2420 2230 Drakelow Park, Walton Road, Drakelow, Swadlincote
Received 12 Sept 202521 Mount Road, Castle Gresley, Swadlincote, DE11 9ES
Received 12 Sept 202543 Main Street, Netherseal, Swadlincote, DE12 8DB
Received 5 Sept 2025Land to the east of Dove Valley Park, Park Avenue, Foston, Derby
Received 12 Sept 2025Land to the east of Dove Valley Park, Park Avenue, Foston, Derby
Received 12 Sept 2025Land to the east of Dove Valley Park, Park Avenue, Foston, Derby
Received 12 Sept 2025Land to the east of Dove Valley Park, Park Avenue, Foston, Derby
Received 12 Sept 2025Land to the east of Dove Valley Park, Park Avenue, Foston, Derby
Received 12 Sept 2025Land to the east of Dove Valley Park, Park Avenue, Foston, Derby
Received 12 Sept 2025St Wilfrids Church, Church Road, Egginton, Derby, DE65 6HP
Received 12 Sept 2025Records 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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