'Eyesore' Radlett Road plot for sale after homes approved

In February, Watford Borough Council approved a planning application for two three-storey houses to replace two small garages that currently occupy the Radlett Road site, opposite Knutsford Playing Fields.

With the permission secured, the land was put on the market with a £700,000 guide price today.

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The plot is described as “an opportunity to acquire a development site in a suburban street in Watford”.

Residential applications for the same site were rejected in 2012 and 2022, as the council had issues with the designs.

When the latest plan was decided, planning officers ultimately judged that the pair of three-bedroom homes would be “an appropriate and acceptable design for this brownfield site and will make good use of this underused site”.

The site in Radlett Road, Watford. (Image: Google Street View)

The developer’s application had called the existing site “unkept and unsightly”, with “dilapidated unused garages and overgrown nature” being labelled “a blot on the landscape and very detrimental to the street scene”.

A neighbour who wrote in support of the scheme called the plot an “eyesore”.