A multi-million pound riverside development which will transform the north east of Chelmsford town centre has been unveiled.
Land bounded by the High Street, Waterloo Lane and Springfield Road will be brought back to life with restaurants, a new river walk, businesses, homes and wildlife habitat.
Chelmsford company Aquila EHS has been given the go-ahead to develop the £15m critical first phase of the project.
It includes raising the level of the footbridge near the Tesco supermarket so that river cruise boats can go further into town.
Overgrown areas and surface car parks will be swept away and replaced with 72 flats, restaurants and offices plus open space, an access route, riverside walks and cycle ways.
Chelmsford Planning Committee councillors greeted the scheme enthusiastically on Tuesday. Planning Officer Roy Chandler said: "This is a very significant step forward and we hope it will encourage more appropriate use of all the other land that is unused, either wasted or overgrown. or used as car parking for so long.
"This first phase is very exciting and a major step forward for the town centre. it strikes with our ambitions to be a city."
Published Thursday June 17, 2004
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