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16 Main Road Danbury Chelmsford CM3 4NQ

11/01068/S73AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 25 February 2026

2 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of condition 1 to approved planning application 11/01068/FUL (Variation of condition 1 of permission reference 00/01356/FUL to allow opening of store from 7am to 10pm) Opening hours to be varied in line with Monday to Saturday opening times. Proposed Wording: The shop and Post Office counter shall not be open for business outside the hours of 7 am to 10 pm except that on Sundays the store and Post Office counter shall only be open for a maximum of 6 hours within that period.

Received
2 January 2026
  1. Received2 Jan
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.6 Feb
  4. Target27 Feb
  5. Decided25 Feb

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 16 Main Road Danbury Chelmsford CM3 4NQ. Chelmsford has handled 365 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Chelmsford's typical decision time. The site is in the Danbury conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,981 applications in total for the CM3 postcode area.

88% of amendment applications at Chelmsford City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CM3 4NQ
Application type
Amendment
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
2 January 2026
Consultation expiry
6 February 2026
Consultation end
6 February 2026
Target decision date
27 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14549094
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Danbury Conservation Area
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

Source: Chelmsford

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