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20 Highfield Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7EY

CHE/25/00867/RETApproved

Approved on 27 January 2026

Council decision: Conditional permission

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use to seven bedroom HMO

Received
27 November 2025
Ward
Spire
  1. Received27 Nov
  2. Validated28 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Jan

Decided in 60 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 20 Highfield Road Newbold Chesterfield Derbyshire S41 7EY. Chesterfield has handled 3,915 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 3 days quicker than Chesterfield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 156 applications across Spire. We hold 1,231 applications in total for the S41 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
S41 7EY
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 November 2025

Planning decision

Case officer
CW

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    2 Feb

    Discharge of Condition 2 (Cycle store) of application CHE/25/00867/RET

    Discharge of Planning ConditionsDischarge of conditionsCHE/26/00060/DOC
  2. 2025
    28 Nov

    Change of use to seven bedroom HMO

    This applicationApprovedApplicationCHE/25/00867/RET

Source: Chesterfield

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