Planning permission has been granted for 56 new homes.

Developers will knock down industrial buildings at The Hub in Paradise, Hemel Hempstead.

Today (August 30) Dacorum Borough Council approved the plans for a mix of commercial and residential buildings on the site.

The commercial building will include a foodbank, bike workshop, office space and a café area.

While the homes will consist of 1- and 2-bedrooms apartments over six storeys, with a basement level housing parking.

Watford Observer: The Hub in Paradise, Hemel Hempstead where the homes will be built. The Hub in Paradise, Hemel Hempstead where the homes will be built. (Image: Google Earth/Ross Consulting)

The build will also include a bin store, cycle stoor a scooter store and landscaping.

While the site is not home to any protected trees, there is woodland to the north or the site that is protected.

Trees hanging over the site will be cut back as they have done in previous years.

In the planning documents, the developer has said it will likely carry out the works in the following order – initial works to the trees, demolition, site clearance, construction and hard landscaping, soft landscaping and finishing works and finally singing off on works to the trees.