Cummins on Gandalf's Ride has applied to sell alcohol to take away, 7am to 11pm every day. Comments to Chelmsford City Council close on 17 November 2026.

The convenience store at 76-78 Gandalf’s Ride, South Woodham Ferrers, has applied to Chelmsford City Council for a licence to sell alcohol to take away, from 7am to 11pm every day.

The council lists it as a new premises licence application for Cummins, made by a private applicant (Chelmsford City Council, application for Cummins). The statutory notice, which names the premises as Gandalf’s Ride Convenience Store, ran in the Essex Chronicle on 29 October (Public Notice Portal).

What is applied for

The application covers one licensable activity:

  • the sale of alcohol for consumption off the premises;
  • from 7am to 11pm, Monday to Sunday.

The council’s page gives the shop’s opening hours as the same, 7am to 11pm every day. The applicant’s own description is short: “convenience store as per plan”. There is no drinking on site and no music in the application.

The plan filed with the council shows the whole shop floor as the licensable area, with the counter beside the entrance. It says alcohol “may be displayed anywhere” in that area. The storerooms and staff toilet at the back are outside it (Chelmsford City Council, premises plan).

Where it is

The shop is at 76-78 Gandalf’s Ride, CM3 5WS, in the South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood ward. The nearest bus stop, also called Gandalfs Ride, is on Inchbonnie Road (OpenStreetMap).

Cummins is already listed at the address as a convenience store in our South Woodham Ferrers business directory. The business has no website or social media page of its own that we could find, and it has not said anything public about the application.

What it means for you

Anyone can comment on the application, for or against, as long as it relates to the four licensing objectives: preventing crime and disorder, public safety, preventing public nuisance and protecting children from harm.

  • Deadline: midnight on Tuesday 17 November 2026.
  • How: in writing, by email to licensing@chelmsford.gov.uk, or by post to the Licensing Section, Chelmsford City Council, Civic Centre, Duke Street, Chelmsford CM1 1JE.
  • Include: your name and address. The council will not consider a representation without them, and it sends representations to the applicant in full (Chelmsford City Council, incoming licensing applications).

If no relevant representations are made, the council must grant the licence as applied for. If there are any, the application goes to a hearing of the council’s licensing sub-committee.