Plans for more than 500 new homes have been submitted to the council.

The South Oxhey Initiative proposals have been submitted to Three Rivers District Council, and if approved, 514 new homes, new shops and cafes will be created.

A seven-storey building – with shops on the first floor and then six levels of flats on top – will be built on the corner of the existing precinct near Fairfield Avenue.

Station Approach will be redeveloped and developers want coffee shops, restaurants and a pub built there, describing it as the “gateway to the town centre”.

Two new roads will join Bridlington Road and Prestwick Road and vehicles will be able to access homes using these two roads.

Four-storey blocks of flats will be built along Bridlington Road – where the existing shops are – and the development will be split by the two new roads into three horizontal blocks.

Running through the middle of two of the blocks will be two and three-storey houses.

Parking for the new food store can be accessed via Oxhey Drive, while people living in the new flats will be able to park on a “ramp” above the car park for the new food store.

Two hundred and forty eight of the 514 new homes will be two-bedroom flats and 126 will be one bedroom flats.

In November, the Watford Observer revealed just 96 of the 514 new homes in the area will be affordable.

Just three of the houses will be available for less than the market rate and 41 of the affordable flats will be one-bedroom apartments.

Submitting the planning application cost Countryside Properties £40,191.