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Highwater Farm The Common East Hanningfield Chelmsford Essex CM3 8AH

25/00065/CUPAQOutlineRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 19 March 2025

Proposal

Determination as to whether the prior approval of the local planning authority is required for the proposed change of use of an agricultural building to two, one person dwellings (class c3).

Received
22 January 2025
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.28 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Highwater Farm The Common East Hanningfield Chelmsford Essex CM3 8AH. Chelmsford has handled 370 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Chelmsford's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. We hold 2,982 applications in total for the CM3 postcode area.

67% of outline 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 8AH
Application type
Outline
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
22 January 2025
Consultation expiry
28 February 2025
Consultation end
28 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13653807
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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