To continue the existing successes from the growth of Chelmsford City Council’s area by embracing our role as England’s newest City and the Capital of Essex. Chelmsford will be a sub-regional catalyst for change, providing new sustainable neighbourhoods and attracting inward investment for a wide range of businesses across our area. This also means maximising development opportunities within a compact and vibrant City Centre.

This positive change will optimise the opportunities for new and upgraded infrastructure including cultural, leisure and recreation facilities, shops, education and healthcare services and also provide even better housing and job opportunities to local residents, making places where people want to live and work to further improve their quality of life and wellbeing. This will include improving the way people move around by public transport, by bike, on foot and in private vehicles and making the most of the area’s assets and opportunities such as its river valleys, and improving the built, natural and historic environment.

For more information, please visit Chelmsford’s Local Plan here.