Hargrave House re-development for the Kids Inspire Charity

Hargrave House re-development for the Kids Inspire Charity

James Firth

James Firth

May, 21 2025

The planning team at Ceres Property is delighted to have achieved planning permission on behalf of our client Essex Housing for the redevelopment of Hargrave House, Chelmsford.

The scheme will provide a new purpose-built facility for use by the Kids Inspire Charity, 10 new residential dwellings, along with associated infrastructure, parking and landscaping.

Kids Inspire is a charitable organisation offering mental health and trauma recovery support for children, young people and their families, and the scheme will provide them with a new, much improved facility.

Planning permission on this previously developed brownfield site was achieved through delegated decision following extensive close working by James Firth and Laura Dudley-Smith with Chelmsford planning officers and the technical team at pre-application and application stages.

Alongside the new charity building the scheme will provide 10 new residential properties. The development is being taken forward by Essex Housing as their first carbon neutral housing scheme. This will incorporate the reduction of embodied and operational carbon, with the remainder of the total footprint offset through a registered scheme.

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