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Coval Lane Building Phase 1 &2 Civic Centre Duke Street Chelmsford Essex

26/00523/FULFullApproved

Approved on 5 June 2026

2 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use from Office (Use Class E(g)(i)) to a flexible Learning and Non-residential Institution Use for the provision of education (Use Class F1(a)), Local Community Use (Use Class F2) and/or Office (Use Class E(g)(i)), including performing arts education and community hire for dance, drama, music and rehearsal activities, with no external alterations.

Received
30 April 2026
  1. Received30 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.1 Jun
  4. Target25 Jun
  5. Decided5 Jun

Decided in 36 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Coval Lane Building Phase 1 &2 Civic Centre Duke Street Chelmsford Essex. Chelmsford has handled 1,088 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 13 days quicker than Chelmsford's typical decision time. The site is in the North Oxford Victorian Suburb conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

85% of full 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

Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Validated
30 April 2026
Consultation expiry
1 June 2026
Consultation end
1 June 2026
Target decision date
25 June 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14873359
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Chelmsford West End Conservation AreaPart of the site
  • Listed building: Grade II: War Memorial to the Front (North) of Civic CentreOn this site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: West EndPart of the site
  • Brownfield land register: Granary Car ParkRegister site at or near this address · +2 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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