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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0 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn.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: 2 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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120 Heath Lane, Findern, Derby, DE65 6AR
Received 22 Apr 2025Newton Lane Farm, Newton Lane, Newton Solney, Derbyshire. Burton On Trent, DE15 0RU
Received 22 Apr 202511 Mill Green, The Wharf, Shardlow, Derby, DE72 2WE
Received 22 Apr 20251 Repton School, Bursars House The Cross, Willington Road, Repton, Derby, DE65 6FH
Received 23 Apr 2025Land at New House Farm, Etwall Road, Mickleover, Derby, DE3 0DN
Received 23 Apr 2025Talbot Farm Nursery, Derby Road, Hilton, DE65 5FP
Received 23 Apr 2025Land adjacent to The Haven, Uttoxeter Road, Hatton, Derby DE65 5PX
Received 24 Apr 2025Land adjacent to 7 & 8 Slade Close, Etwall, DE65 6JH
Received 24 Apr 2025Land at SK2420 2230 Drakelow Park, Walton Road, Drakelow, Swadlincote
Received 24 Apr 202520 Colwell Drive, Boulton Moor, Derby, DE24 5AB
Received 24 Apr 2025Land east of Chellaston Lane and south of Shardlow Road, Derby
Received 24 Apr 2025Land at SK2420 2230, Drakelow Park, Walton Road, Drakelow, Swadlincote
Received 25 Apr 20257-9 Derby Road, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8FE
Received 25 Apr 2025Land north of Lullington, Swadlincote
Received 15 Apr 202510 Lupin Close, Stenson Fields, Derby, DE24 3EY
Received 28 Apr 202527 Enfield Close, Hilton, Derby, DE65 5HT
Received 28 Apr 2025Wonersh House, Main Street, Burnaston, Derby, DE65 6LG
Received 29 Apr 2025Eastfield Farm, Acresford Road, Netherseal, Swadlincote, DE12 8DF
Received 29 Apr 2025224 Station Road, Melbourne, Derby, DE73 8BQ
Received 29 Apr 2025The Dairy, Main Street, Netherseal, Swadlincote, DE12 8BZ
Received 29 Apr 2025Field House Farm, Coton Lane, Rosliston, Swadlincote, DE12 8HN
Received 29 Apr 202569 Bank Street, Castle Gresley, Swadlincote, DE11 9LB
Received 29 Apr 2025Land adjacent 1 Victoria Villas, Belvoir Crescent, Newhall, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, DE11 0ED
Received 30 Apr 2025The Leas, Sinfin Lane, Barrow-on-Trent, Derby, DE73 7HH
Received 1 May 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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