A planning application seeks permission to turn two offices in the middle of an industrial estate into flats.
Units six and eight at Century Court are the subject of an attempt to use permitted development rights to divide them up and create four homes.
Within the industrial estate, off Tolpits Lane in Watford, the building is surrounded by offices on one side and garages behind it in Moor Park Industrial Centre.
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Designs show that there would be a flat on each floor in each building. The flats would each have three bedrooms, a living area, kitchen/dining room, and four bathrooms.
Unit seven, between the two units and within the same building, is not part of the application and would retain its designation as office space.
Permitted development rights can be used to convert offices into residential accommodation without full planning permission.
This would still require prior approval from Three Rivers District Council, which is what the application added to the planning portal today (July 25) seeks to obtain.
It is currently “pending consideration”.
Century Court units 6 and 8. (Image: Google Maps/Canva)
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