A planning application for Chelmsford Garden Community Zone 2 was submitted by Countryside L&Q to Chelmsford City Council on 30 October 2023. Further details are outlined in the “Have Your Say” section below.
A planning application for Chelmsford Garden Community Zone 2 has been submitted to Chelmsford City Council by Countryside L&Q. Further details are outlined in the “Have Your Say” section below.
This Website
This website explains the background to and vision for Chelmsford Garden Community and will act as a hub for the ongoing community and stakeholder engagement process.
Planning applications for Chelmsford Garden Community (CGC) are being brought forward by Ptarmigan Land for Zone 1, Countryside L&Q for Zone 2 and Halley Developments for Zone 3 and the Northern Radial Distributor Road (NRDR). The four planning applications will accord with the approved CGC Development Framework Document (DFD) which sets out the Vision and Framework for the Garden Community. For more information on the DFD, please view the ‘About‘ section of this website. For more information on each of the four planning applications, please view the ‘Planning Applications’ section of this website. See below the emerging site wide illustrative masterplan.
Site Wide Illustrative masterplan.
Vision
Chelmsford Garden Community will be a thriving settlement that offers the best of town and country living. The Garden Community will deliver new housing with healthy placemaking and sustainability principles, new employment opportunities, a supporting movement network, social and recreational infrastructure and open space to cater for the needs of the residents and City. It will build on the success of the new neighbourhoods of Beaulieu and Channels and be a Garden Community that meets the needs of the growing City.
