Residents hoping for decisions on three planning applications at this evening's Three Rivers District Council development and control meeting will have to wait.

A plan for seven detached four-bedroom houses, on land behind Stubbs Farm in Green Street, Chorleywood was withdrawn.

The decision was delayed at the last meeting to allow councillors to visit the site. Committee members had been recommended to grant the scheme permission.

Secondly, a plan to convert offices at 3 and 3a High Street, Rickmansworth into sheltered apartments for the elderly was withdrawn.

Planning officers recommended this development be refused planning permission for many reasons, mainly because it would cause loss or damage to a silver birch tree in the High Street.

Finally, although the committee was recommended to refuse permission for three houses behind 81 Quickley Lane, Chorleywood, the decision was delayed to allow members to visit the site.

At the end of the unusually short 35 minute meeting, chairman Geoffrey Dunne said: "I think that might be a record gentlemen."