These five sites are set to see development after planning approval in May, including an athletics ground, car park, and green belt fields.
Some proposals were met with objections while others proved widely popular but all of the projects below were granted approval.Despite Watford Borough Council refusing to grant permission for an eight storey tower of 89 flats to replace the existing Wellstones Car Par, the Planning Inspectorate overruled the decision on May 24 and so the development can go ahead.
There will also be a “flexible commercial unit” on the ground floor of the building, between Exchange Road and Wellstones. The main school building at St John's Catholic Primary School, in Berry Lane, Rickmansworth was identified as having structural instability due to being built with Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete, before the material’s issues came to national attention.
On May 9, Three Rivers District Council approved plans to knock it down and replace it with a new teaching block funded by the Government’s School Rebuilding Programme.Woodside Stadium Athletics Ground, the home of Watford Harriers Athletics Club, is set to receive an upgrade after Watford Borough Council approved the construction of a new gym to replace a temporary office by the stands on May 23.
There will be 54 affordable units as part of the green belt development, between Hempstead Road and the Grand Union Canal.After another intervention from the Planning Inspectorate, this time for a project between Church Lane and Sarratt Road in Sarratt, 83 homes can be built.As an outline application, more detailed plans will still need to be submitted and approved before development can go ahead.
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