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2 The Brambles Mayes Lane Sandon Chelmsford Essex CM2 7RP
Single Storey Rear Extension with Flat Roof Over
Site At Former Mapletree Works Brook Lane Galleywood Chelmsford
Condition 3 - Finished Levels, Condition 4 - Contamination, Condition 5 - Construction Management Plan (CMP), Condition 6 - Bat Survey, Condition 7 - Biodiversity Net Gain Plan 9 (the BNG Plan), Condi
37 Maldon Road Danbury Chelmsford CM3 4QL
T1 - Oak Tree - Front boundary - Prune the lower branches outside the fence by 4.5m and lower crown raised by 1.5m. Prune branches inside fence by 3m and lower branches raised by 1m. Reason: Obstructi
3 Connaught Drive South Woodham Ferrers Chelmsford Essex CM3 5LU
T1 - Silver Birch - Height reduction of up to 3m, remove up to 2m from the East side of the tree with up to 1m being removed to West and South sides of the tree to rebalance tree shape alleviate lean.
26 Plymouth Road Chelmsford Essex CM1 6JG
Single storey extension with flat roof to full width at the rear of a semi-detached house
Primrose Lodge Common Road Stock Ingatestone Essex CM4 9LY
Loft conversion with front/rear dormers. Addition of new lift and internal and external alterations.
Myrak Ltd County Motor Works Cuton Hall Lane Chelmer Village Chelmsford Essex CM2 6PB
Non-material amendment to planning application 25/00803/FUL (Change of use of existing unit from construction equipment sales (Sui Generis) to car showrooms, ancillary aftersales and MOT workshop (Sui
New House The Green Chignal St James Chelmsford Essex CM1 4TY
Retrospective application for the use of land for car parking and improvement of surface.
11 Cowdrie Way Chelmer Village Chelmsford Essex CM2 6GL
3.5m single storey rear extension double door with side windows opening toward the rear garden
The Beaulieu Park School Armistice Avenue Chelmsford Garden Community Chelmsford CM1 6DT
Non-material amendment to application 24/00792/FUL (Proposed sixth form building to serve the Beaulieu Park School. Building comprises a 2 storey block containing classrooms with associated offices, s
380B Baddow Road Great Baddow Chelmsford CM2 9RA
T6 - Oak (Marked T1) Pollard to the previous cuts, approximately 5-6m of new growth - Reason: good arboricultural practice to manage the re growth T7 - Oak (Marked T2) -Reduce all branches towards the
Morels Holybread Lane Little Baddow Chelmsford Essex CM3 4BP
T1 Oak - Reduce and lower mid canopy branch work to aspects East , North and West, where this is protruding from the natuaral canopy line up to 3m. T2 Oak - Thin complete canopy by up to 30% of the to
30 Broomhall Road Broomfield Chelmsford CM1 7HB
Non-material amendment to Planning Application 24/01212/FUL (Demolition of existing garages. Construction of 4 new dwellings with associated parking and landscaping.) Amendments to trees, minor extern
182 Main Road Broomfield Chelmsford CM1 7AJ
G15 (Marked T3 on plan) - Ash - Fell - Reason: Potentially unsound G22 - Sargents Cherry - Fell to Ground - Reason: The tree is dead/dying G22 - Rowan - Fell to Ground - Reason: The tree is dead/dying
Land West Of Margaretting Hall Church Lane Margaretting Ingatestone Essex
Erection of a machinery store.
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When Chelmsford City Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Chelmsford City Council, raw rate
20.2%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
29.3%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
9.1 percentage points below expected. Chelmsford City Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
709 appeals counted, 667 judged either way (135 allowed, 532 dismissed), 42 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-07 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 398 | 393 | 78 | 19.8% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 158 | 155 | 36 | 23.2% | 35.6% |
| Enforcement Notice | 78 | 56 | 3 | 5.4% | 13.5% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 21 | 19 | 6 | 31.6% | 20.6% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 20 | 19 | 7 | 36.8% | 36.9% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 13 | 11 | 3 | 27.3% | 36% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 10 | 10 | 2 | 20% | 33.3% |
| High Hedges | 4 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 3 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 25% |
| Environmental | 2 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Commercial Appeals Service (Adverts) | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | 27.6% |
| Tree Replacement Notice | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | 31.9% |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Chelmsford City Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Chelmsford City Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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