Plans for 69 homes and a 65-bed care facility have been formally approved after a near-four-year process.

A vacant 70,000-square-foot office building in Two Brindley Way, Apsley, is set to be knocked down to make way for two blocks of flats, a smaller office building, and a retirement living block.

Initial pre-application designs were first taken to Dacorum Borough Council in November 2020, with full plans submitted in July 2022. Designs were then significantly amended in July 2023 before the council’s decision to grant permission was published on Friday (July 26).

The flats would be a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom properties while the extra care apartments would each be one- or two-bedroom.

Application documents claimed that there was a “proven local need” for the care home, which would also have a lounge, reception, bistro, and wellness suite.

The Apsley office building set for demolition.The Apsley office building set for demolition. (Image: Google Maps/Canva)

Designs leave space for 146 parking spaces and “extensive” gardens for residents.

The site is a 15-minute walk from Shaffold Knoll, a green belt patch of land to the south-east where another development including 33 homes and a 70-bed care home was proposed at the end of June.

Residents have recently been raising concerns that increasing development around Apsley and Nash Mills could cause Kings Langley to "merge" with Hemel Hempstead and lose its identity as a village.