Derbyshire

Chesterfield planning data

2,774 planning applications from Chesterfield. Ask questions about them in plain English from ChatGPT or Claude — no coding, about two minutes to set up — or pull them straight into your own software. 11 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,774

Applications

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Enforcement notices

2,675

Appeals

1993–2026

Date range

What Chesterfield decides

Chesterfield has approved 89.83% of the 1,858 applications it has decided since January 2023. Across the 225 councils with a comparable caseload the range is 71.37% to 99.14%, so this is at or above the middle of the pack (89.18%).

89.83%

Approved, of 1,858 decided

Median days to a decision

98.5

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types Chesterfield handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	834	30.1%
Conditions	566	20.4%
Tree	421	15.2%
Other	409	14.7%
Householder	236	8.5%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Chesterfield actually fills in

A "field" is one piece of information on an application — the decision date, the applicant's name, the address. Councils fill these in inconsistently, so this table measures how often Chesterfield actually provides each one, across all 2,774 records. Anything listed as reliable you can count on; anything lower, check the council's own record before relying on it.

Once this data is connected to ChatGPT or Claude you can just ask "what information does Chesterfield actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Address `address`	2,774	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,774	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,774	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,774	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,771	99.9%
Ward `ward`	2,759	99.5%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,757	99.4%
Status `status`	2,577	92.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,577	92.9%
Decision `decision`	2,551	92.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,551	92.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,490	89.8%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,445	88.1%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,367	85.3%
Postcode `postcode`	2,355	84.9%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,849	66.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	308	11.1%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Agent's company `agent_company`	159	5.7%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	36	1.3%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	36	1.3%
Agent's email `agent_email`	33	1.2%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Chesterfield's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

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Ask it in ChatGPT or Claude

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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=203&limit=5"

Council id for Chesterfield is 203. Full API reference for developers →

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