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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0 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn.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: 24 Jul 2007 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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87 Main Street, Ticknall, Derby, DE73 7JF
Received 21 Jan 202534 Sidings Drive, Drakelow, DE15 9UP
Received 22 Jan 2025Auden House, Chapel Lane, Church Broughton, Derby, DE65 5BB
Received 8 Jan 202517 Market Place, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8DS
Received 22 Jan 202534 Main Street, Ambaston, Derby, DE72 3ES
Received 22 Jan 202544 Derby Road, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8FE
Received 15 Jan 2025Ivy House, 8 Church Lane, Barrow-on-trent, Derby, DE73 7HB
Received 23 Jan 202555 Washford Road, Hilton, Derby, DE65 5HN
Received 23 Jan 2025Land between Lichfield Road (A38) and Drakelow Road, Walton on Trent
Received 23 Jan 202535 Church Street, Church Gresley, DE11 9NP
Received 13 Jan 2025Land between Lichfield Road (A38) and Drakelow Road, Walton on Trent
Received 23 Jan 202536-44 Mount Pleasant Road and land to the rear, Repton DE65 6GQ
Received 23 Jan 202520 Glencroft Drive, Stenson Fields, Derby, DE24 3LE
Received 23 Jan 2025Brizlincote Hall Farm, Brizlincote Lane, Bretby, Burton On Trent, DE15 0PR
Received 24 Jan 202539 Mallard Walk, Mickleover, Derby, DE3 0TF
Received 24 Jan 2025Former Wash House to rear of 62 Church Street, Penn Lane, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8EP
Received 24 Jan 202546 Lulworth Road, Boulton Moor, Derby, DE24 5BJ
Received 24 Jan 202514 Park Row, Bretby, Burton On Trent, DE15 0RL
Received 9 Dec 2024Land located adjacent to 35 The Wharf , Shardlow, DE72 2HG
Received 27 Jan 202522 Old Hall Lane, Church Broughton, Derby, DE65 5DA
Received 27 Jan 2025Management Office, Bretby Hall, Unnamed Road Through Bretby Park, Bretby, Burton On Trent, DE15 0QQ
Received 28 Jan 202517 Market Place, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8DS
Received 28 Jan 20257 Churchside, Willington, Derby, DE65 6TB
Received 28 Jan 202562 Derby Road, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8FE
Received 29 Jan 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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