Sunset Main Road Margaretting Ingatestone Essex CM4 0EX Data via plota.co.uk

26/00940/FUL Approved

Proposal

Proposed loft conversion with additional fenestration including Juliet balconies to rear. Garage Conversion and and internal alterations. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

22 Jul 2026

✓

Approved

16 Sept 2026

Approved on 16 Sept 2026 · Last checked 19 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 4

Green belt: London

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Also on the record

National infrastructure project 1430 m away: Norwich to Tilbury; Registered park or garden 240 m away: Hylands Park.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 3

Last sold for £785,000 in June 2026. Detached house, freehold.

4 June 2026£785,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

30 November 2000£268,000

18 October 1996£59,500

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Building

Floor area146 m² (1,572 sq ft)

Energy ratingD (62 out of 100), could reach B

PropertyDetached bungalow, 7 habitable rooms

Built1976 to 1982

HeatingBoiler and radiators, oil

WallsCavity wall, filled cavity

From the energy performance certificate lodged in July 2023, the latest held for this property. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council: Chelmsford
Postcode: CM4 0EX
Received: 22 Jul 2026
Validated: 22 Jul 2026
Target decision: 16 Sept 2026
Decision date: 16 Sept 2026
Freehold owner: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 55 days. Approved, as 87% of extensions here are.

This one56d

Council55d

UK55d

76%decided within 8 weeks

87%approved

698decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Chelmsford in the last twelve months, from validation. Chelmsford decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 19 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15071745
Planning Portal ref: PP-15071745
Comments by: 7 Sept 2026

Chelmsford

Planning Authority Score

7.4/10

Good

#45 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Chelmsford is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #23 out of 296. Only 21% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Chelmsford decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #167 of 296

90%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #188 of 296

84%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #23 of 296

21%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #19 of 296

76%

Minor dwellings approved

164 decided (1-9 homes)

88%

Major dwellings approved

8 decided (10+ homes)

79%

Change of use approved

52 decided

1,304

Total decisions

168 refused in the year to March 2026

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.