Baddow Park West Hanningfield Road Galleywood Chelmsford CM2 7SY Data via plota.co.uk

26/01048/AG Refused

Proposal

Erection of a agricultural barn Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

31 Jul 2026

✗

Refused

28 Aug 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 28 Aug 2026 · Last checked 3 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 2

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.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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 1

Last sold for £2,125,000 in May 2019. Other property, freehold.

17 May 2019£2,125,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

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

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Important details

Council: Chelmsford
Postcode: CM2 7SY
Received: 31 Jul 2026
Validated: 31 Jul 2026
Target decision: 28 Aug 2026
Decision date: 28 Aug 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 28 days from validation, 27 days faster than Chelmsford's median of 55 for agricultural works. Refused, as 42% of agricultural works here are.

This one28d

Council55d

UK44d

64%decided within 8 weeks

58%approved

38decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 3 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15123640
Planning Portal ref: PP-15123640

Historical activity at this location

7 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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2021

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2020 Approved

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20/00968/FUL 21 Aug 2020

2020 Refused

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2020 Refused

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2019 Approved

Shed 9 Baddow Park Mushroom Farm West Hanningfield Road Great Baddow Chelmsford CM2 7SY

Change of use from industrial (B1) to therapy and rehabilitation rooms (D1).

19/01608/FUL 25 Nov 2019

2019 Approved

Shed 9 Baddow Park Mushroom Farm West Hanningfield Road Great Baddow Chelmsford CM2 7SY

Change of use from industrial (B1) to therapy and rehabilitation rooms (D1).

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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

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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