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Quarry And Premises Moulsham Hall Lane Great And Little Leighs Chelmsford Essex

Awaiting decision Chelmsford 26/00803/FUL Full

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Proposal

Temporary Change of Use to Car Parking Ancillary to Chelmsford City Racecourse for a period of 2 years

As published by the council, reference 26/00803/FUL

Application record

Reference
26/00803/FUL
Type
Full
Status
Pending Decision
Received
16 Jun 2026
Validated
16 Jun 2026

Site history

Applications at this address on the Chelmsford register

This site has had 2 applications since 2026: 1 approved, 0 refused.

  • 26/01386/CM Granted

    Quarry And Premises Moulsham Hall Lane Great And Little Leighs Chelmsford Essex

    Details pursuant to condition 57d (Archaeological Evaluation for Phases 9 and 10) of ESS/42/17/CHL. ESS/42/17/CHL is extant permission for "Extraction of an estimated reserve of 2.8 million tonnes of sand and gravel (from sites A38 and A39 as identified in the Minerals Local Plan 2014) and retention of existing access onto the A131, retention of existing sand and gravel processing plant (to be relocated within site A38), progressive restoration to agriculture using inert fill, installation of inert recycling facility, including screening and crushing to recover secondary aggregate. In addition, revised restoration scheme for the existing quarry area"

    Submitted 9 Oct 2026

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 16 Jun 2026

    Received by Chelmsford

  2. 23 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

  3. 1 Oct 2026

    Status changed to Pending Decision

    Previously Pending Consideration.

  4. Decision

    Awaiting decision

    Decision expected by 11 August 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

    Chelmsford took a median of 55 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

12 documents on file for this application

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What happens while it is decided

This application is with Chelmsford for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Chelmsford decided full applications in a median of 56 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.

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Nearby applications

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  • Quarry And Premises Moulsham Hall Lane Great Leighs Chelmsford Essex

    19/01708/CM Submitted 10 Oct 2019 200 yards away

    Details pursuant to condition 22 of ESS/46/16/CHL - Noise monitoring results September 2019. ESS/46/16/CHL was an amendment to Extraction of an estimated reserve of 2.8 million tonnes of sand and gravel (from sites A38 and A39 as identified in the Minerals Local Plan 2014) and retention of existing access onto the A131, retention of existing sand and gravel processing plant (to be relocated within site A38), progressive restoration to agriculture using inert fill, installation of inert recycling facility, including screening and crushing to recover secondary aggregate. In addition, revised restoration scheme of the existing quarry area.

    Granted Other 3 docs

  • Quarry And Premises Moulsham Hall Lane Great Leighs Chelmsford Essex

    18/01417/CM Submitted 8 Aug 2018 350 yards away

    Details pursuant to condition 22 - Noise monitoring Results May & June 2018 of ESS/46/16/CHL. ESS/46/16/CHL was an amendment to Extraction of an estimated reserve of 2.8 million tonnes of sand and gravel (from sites A38 and A39 as identified in the Minerals Local Plan 2014) and retention of existing access onto the A131 retention of existing sand and gravel processing plant (to be relocated within site A38) progressive restoration to agriculture using inert fill, installation of inert recycling facility, including screening and crushing to recover secondary aggregate. In addition revised restoration scheme for the existing quarry area

    Granted Other 3 docs

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