A property developer’s plan to build homes at former service station site has been approved.
Bugler Homes bought Rickmansworth Service Station, in Victoria Road, last year and submitted a plan to build four four-bedroom homes earlier this year.
On Thursday (June 22), Three Rivers District Council approved the plan.
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While the plan was awaiting decision, a Bugler Homes statement said: “We believe if granted approval, these new dwellings would deliver desirable family homes in a brownfield location, with a contemporary design, that is cognisant with the character of the local area.”
Permission allows two pairs of semi-detached houses to be built within the next three years.
The service station closed early last year after owners Sharon and Joseph Lewin decided to retire after 38 years.
A five-house scheme was submitted for pre-application feedback in July 2022, but concerns were raised and it was reduced to four.
The homes will be built in a modern style, with the application describing suggestions they be built as “more of a Victorian pastiche” to fit in with neighbouring buildings as potentially “cheap and ugly” looking.
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