HOSPITAL APPROACH, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX CM1 7ETMIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT SITERETAIL, SMALL BUSINESS AND HEALTHCARE USES

MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT SITE

LOCATION AND SITUATIONThe City of Chelmsford is the county town of Essex and has a population of approximately 170,000. The highly skilled workforce in the area includes a large number of rail commuters, attracted by the 35-40 minute journey time to London.The site is located in Broomfield, a former village and now residential suburb to the north of Chelmsford. The suburb is concentrated on the west side of the B1008, a busy route which links Chelmsford with Great Dunmow and Braintree to the north. The site stands adjacent to the Broomfield Hospital campus. The hospital was extensively re-developed in 2010 as part of a £150m redevelopment programme by Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust. A short distance to the south is Chelmer Valley High School, a secondary school with over 1,200 pupils.

DESCRIPTIONThe site is prominently located at the junction of North Court Road and Hospital Approach, the main roadway onto the Hospital campus. The site is relatively level and extends to approximately 1.41 acres (0.57 hectares) as outlined in red on the adjacent plan.The site forms part of a larger development of approximately 15.94 acres (6.45 hectares), where it is proposed to develop 150 – 200 new homes and can be seen outlined in blue on the adjacent plan. These residential units are to be developed by Countryside Properties PLC.

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SUMMARY• Allocated for development as a local centre

• Suitable for retail, small business and healthcare uses

• Located adjacent to Broomfield Hospital

• New Build opportunity on undeveloped site

• Chelmsford Railway Station – 3.4 miles

• A12 (Junction 19) – 4.8 miles

• M25 (Junction 28) – 16.4 miles

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MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT SITE

TENUREFreehold

PLANNINGThe site has been allocated in the North Chelmsford Area Action Plan (NCAAP), which was adopted on the 20th July 2011. The Plan refers to the site as Site Allocation 1 - Land north of Hospital Approach and south of Woodhouse Lane (Part 2 – Section 2.28 - 2.31) as follows:

Site context

2.28 This site comprises a mixture of rough grassland with wooded margins and land currently being used as temporary car parking and building plant store associated with the current development works at Broomfield Hospital. The site is directly east of the Broomfield Hospital campus.

2.29 The site is well located to Chelmer Valley High School and Broomfield Hospital with opportunity for a second vechicular access along the western boundary of the site to create a route through the development. [Update: the Local Planning Authority have subsequently stated they do not support the second vehicular access.] The site gains access from Hospital Approach served via Main Road, Broomfield (B1008) which is a ‘quality bus’ corridor with a very good frequency of services connecting into Chelmsford Town Centre.

Objective

• To provide new housing and local centre as part of the allocation for North West Chelmsford

Development principles

2.30 The main vehicular access into the site will be taken from Hospital Approach with opportunity for a second vehicular access along the western boundary of the site to create a route through the development. [Update: the Local Planning Authority have subsequently stated they do not support the second vehicular access.] The focus of built development will be to the north of Hospital Approach with land south of Woodhouse Lane providing development and open space.

2.31 There are opportunities for higher density development in the west of the site closest to Broomfield Hospital, which would incorporate a new local centre, with lower density development in the east of the site. The local centre should provide for convenience retail, small business and healthcare uses to serve both the proposed development and the existing catchment to the south of the site providing up to 3,000 sq m gross floorspace to include a single convenience food store no larger than 500 sq m gross. The local centre should be designed to ensure that it could provide accommodation for a new two GP doctors’ surgery of 350 sq m floorspace. Development should:

• Face onto Hospital Approach;

• Be served by single vehicular access from Hospital Approach;

• Provide footpath improvements at the junction of Woodhouse Lane and along the western side of Main Road;

• Provide a local centre accommodating convenience retail, small business and healthcare related uses which could accommodate a new doctors’ surgery;

• Optimise the potential for development in the south western portion of the site which could comprise limited flatted development;

• Provide a swathe of open space to the eastern side of the site to create a north-south corridor connecting existing wooded areas and allowing connections to the countryside to the north

Leading land use

Residential development (150 – 200 new homes) with associated open space.

Supporting land use

• Neighbourhood scale retail;

• Business and healthcare

Please refer to the North Chelmsford Area Action Plan for further details: (Facts 2.28 – 2.30 sourced from: http://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/ncaap). Specific enquiries should be made to Chelmsford City Council’s Planning and Building Control Services department; initial discussions have indicated that, subject to appropriate design, a increased quantum of development may be considered suitable.

VATVAT will be payable on the purchase of the site.

OFFERSOffers are invited for the Freehold interest in the site, to be received by 12 noon on 14 December 2012.

INSPECTIONSInspections of the site can be undertaken at any time without the need for an appointment. However viewing will only be permitted from the site perimeter. No access to the site will be permitted.

Simon TuddenhamAssociate DirectorDevelopment Consultancy and Agency t +44 20 7487 1702 simon.tuddenham@colliers.com

Adrian IlottDirectorHealthcaret +44 20 7487 1616 adrian.ilott@colliers.com

CONTACTSUBJECT TO CONTRACT

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