Savills Eastern Region Planning

A look back at 2024…

Discover how we have been helping to bring our client's vision to life throughout 2024. Below celebrates a selection of projects across Commercial, Residential and Rural. What will be next for 2025?

ARU Creative Quarter, Cambridge

Secured planning permission to consolidate the Arts, History and Social Science departments and demolish the Webb building at Anglia Ruskin University – replacing them with a new film studio and media centre alongside the removal of the Annexe building and alterations to the Coslett and Ruskin buildings, including a new sustainable façade with pv panels, air source heat pumps and roof plants.

Contact - Andy Moffat

George Street, Chelmsford

Savills (Chelmsford) successfully secured planning permission in March 2024 for the redevelopment of a 43-space city centre car park at George Street, Chelmsford to provide 15 affordable apartments with associated landscaping, amenity space and vehicular parking. The proposals, being brought forward by the City Council, will feature a mix of one, two and three-bedroom units provided across two blocks. The buildings have been carefully designed to sympathetically reflect the character and appearance of two adjacent Grade II Listed Buildings and the Conservation Area within which it sits. This is one of a number of schemes brought forward by Chelmsford City Council with the assistance of Savills to boost the supply of affordable housing in the city.

Contact - Tom Sharman

The Technology Partnership Campus, Melbourn

Savills Planning was appointed in late 2017 and have provided advice throughout the entire lifecycle of the project, from construction through to the opening of the site in spring 2024. The scheme won both the ‘Best of the Best’ and the ‘Corporate Workplace’ categories for The Technology Partnership at the British Council for Offices (BCO) National Awards.

Contact - Garth Hanlon

Melbourn Science Park, Melbourn

Secured planning permission to demolish 146,325 sq ft of existing buildings, alongside alterations and extensions by 12,130 sq ft to retained buildings. The consent also included the construction of 495,474 sq ft of new office and technology research facilities alongside the continued use of the DaVinci building and 246,935 sq ft of ancillary buildings for vehicle and cycle parking.

Contact - Andy Moffat

Hatchfield Farm, Newmarket

Secured planning permission for 400 dwellings at Hatchfield Farm in Newmarket on behalf of Vistry Group.

Contact - Jonathan Dixon





Green Energy Hub, Harwich

The Green Energy Hub consent forms part of a series of applications to deliver the Bathside Bay Container Terminal development and allows interim use of the quay for wind turbine assembly to serve off-shore wind development.  

Contact - John Bowles



Reid’s, Billericay

The Savills East of England Planning team was instructed to guide the Brodie Group through the process of securing full planning permission for the conversion of a locally-listed building in a prominent Conservation Area location adjacent to the Green belt, and the construction of a new-build apartment block on the existing car park. Working closely with the architects and ECC Place Services, the design was refined through multiple pre-application submissions over several years, leading to a resolution to grant permission in 2024, with permission expected in early 2025.

Contact - Jonathan Dixon

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