Plans for 25 flats in Watford High Street submitted

The plans seek to demolish two existing three-storey buildings and create one new building of up to eight storeys.

The development site in question is the locally listed 46 and 48-50 High Street; currently home to Keech Hospice care, which is next door to the Moon Under Water pub.

The proposals include a mixture of one and two-bed flats, with four storeys on the High Street, stepping up to eight storeys into Wellstones.

Retail or commercial space is proposed on the ground floor.

The proposed site is pictured - the Keech Hospice Care building and the boarded up building to the left.

Access to the flats would be via Wellstones and a planning document prepared by planning agents Nissen Richards Studio says a new footpath will be installed in Wellstones.

A private courtyard would be created within the development.

Initial designs had the new flats in a building of up to 11 storeys but this has been scaled back following pre-application advice from Watford Borough Council officers and the council's design review panel.

No parking has been proposed for this development and there is no affordable housing proposed.

A financial viability assessment has been published which concludes it is "not technically viable to provide any sort of affordable housing in order to generate a profit level usually considered appropriate for funding and building this type of development".

The planning application can be found here.

This application is among at least three more notable pending applications to build flats in Watford High Street.

At 101-107 High Street, there is a proposal to demolish existing buildings and create 100 new flats and 874sq metres of retail floorspace.

Plans have been submitted to redevelop 60 High Street into 33 flats and a retail unit, while at 250 High Street, there is an application to knock the existing building down and create 25 flats over five storeys.