Gildage Farm Heath Road Heath Chesterfield S44 5RZ Data via plota.co.uk

26/00425/DEM Approved

Proposal

Prior notification of proposed demolition of steel framed agricultural building, a timber agricultural building and a brick built bungalow Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:59

Application progress

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Received

29 May 2026

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Approved

19 Jun 2026

Approved on 19 Jun 2026 · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Coal mining development high risk area

Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.

From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.

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Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project: Chesterfield to Willington, at pre-application; Conservation area about 79 m away: Heath Village.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: North East Derbyshire
Postcode: S44 5RZ
Received: 29 May 2026
Validated: 29 May 2026
Decision: PRIOR APPROVAL NOT REQUIRED
Decision date: 19 Jun 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 21 days from validation, 35 days faster than North East Derbyshire's median of 56 for demolitions. Approved, as 89% of demolitions here are.

This one21d

Council56d

UK56d

55%decided within 8 weeks

89%approved

38decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by North East Derbyshire in the last twelve months, from validation. North East Derbyshire decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14960488
Planning Portal ref: PP-14960488

North East Derbyshire

Planning Authority Score

4.6/10

Below average

#168 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

North East Derbyshire ranks #166 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

North East Derbyshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

92%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #89 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #133 of 296

62%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #166 of 296

44%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #181 of 296

87%

Minor dwellings approved

45 decided (1-9 homes)

100%

Major dwellings approved

8 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

28 decided

532

Total decisions

42 refused in the year to March 2026