Since 2007, the following councils have worked under a joint arrangement to carry out their functions relating to building control:

• Chesterfield Borough Council
• North East Derbyshire District Council
• Bolsover District Council

The building control function deals with building regulations and until June 2017 this was carried out by BCN Consultancy on behalf of all three authorities. BCN Consultancy has now been superseded by the Derbyshire Building Control Partnership.

Chesterfield Borough Council is the lead authority for the Chesterfield and District Joint Crematorium Committee, which has delegated to it the crematorium functions of:

• Chesterfield Borough Council
• North East Derbyshire District Council
• Bolsover District Council

Since 1972, these three authorities have succeeded to the responsibilities of the five smaller authorities that originally established the committee in 1951.