Planning permission has been granted to turn a former chapel into two four-bed homes.

Developers will convert the building that sits within the Grade II listed complex Royal Connaught Park in The Avenue, Bushey.

Royal Connaught Park is a development of luxury apartments in a gated setting once home to the Royal Masonic School for Boys and later the United States International University (Europe).

Watford Observer: The chapel was built in 1900The chapel was built in 1900 (Image: Plus Architecture)

Comer Homes, who is developing the site, said it wants to “maintain the essential character of the existing building”.

It plans to repair the “fabric of the building” and repair and maintain its stained glass.

Watford Observer: Precedent images supplied with the planning application. Precedent images supplied with the planning application. (Image: Plus Architecture)

Each home will be split over two floors and the developer will install a first floor in each unit for this to take place.

Watford Observer: Precedent images supplied with the planning application.Precedent images supplied with the planning application. (Image: Plus Architecture)

Two parking spaces will be allocated to each unit.

The application was made after the developer decided the former chapel, which was built in 1900, would not need to be used as an office as originally intended.