Planning Consent for a further Urban Extension to Colchester

We recently submitted a Reserved Matters planning application for 33 new dwellings, as part of the wider Chesterwell development to the north of Colchester, Essex. We are delighted that Colchester Borough Council supported the proposals and approved this application.

Chesterwell comprises an important urban extension and community to Colchester that will deliver 1,600 new homes, a neighbourhood centre, new schools, together with significant educational, green, community and highways infrastructure.

This particular application site is located centrally within Chesterwell and contains a number of important corners and frontages. Consequently, the development was arranged as in a series of perimeter blocks, with active building frontages that address streets and public spaces. This is beneficial to place-making and can assist with natural surveillance of public space for safety and security.

The layout was also designed with inner views in mind, to help people to orientate themselves and a support a legible network of streets, offering a variety of roadways, footways, street landscapes and building styles and detailing.

Part of the site is located along ‘The Primary Street’, and as such is the most publicly visible. This frontage required an active, well-articulated frontage.

‘The Secondary Street’ offered the key route through the parcel, linking to the various different character areas within Chesterwell to the proposed schools and Neighbourhood Centre.

Chesterwell as a whole has been designed so that the Density and intensity of the development diminishes from the central areas to the rural edge. This site, being located centrally within the development and in close proximity to the proposed schools and Neighbourhood Centre required a density form and taller buildings.

Chesterwell is a development that we promoted through the local plan process and was subsequently allocated as an important urban extension to contribute towards meeting the housing needs of Colchester for that plan period.

If you have a parcel of land and are seeking to understand its development potential, please contact us at mail@adpltd.co.uk.