A garden centre is set to shut as a developer has put forward plans to build homes on the site.
Greenbloom Growers, in Chipperfield Road between Bovingdon and Chipperfield, has confirmed “everything must go” as it must close because the land it rents had apparently been sold for housing.
Plant nursery equipment, including a poly tunnel frame, is up for sale as well as the plants themselves.
Earlier this week, a property developer submitted a planning application to Dacorum Borough Council that includes demolishing five polytunnels, a greenhouse, and a portacabin on the land.
Two detached four-bedroom houses would be built to replace them, with garages. Each home would have three parking spaces accessed via a new route from the other side to the existing Greenbloom Growers entrance at the junction, which would be closed off.
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They would be designed in the style of “contemporary barns”, with red and grey brickwork.
The site is within the green belt but is described as "previously developed land" and the applicant claims in planning documents that reducing the built footprint will actually increase the openness of the green belt.
According to the planning portal, the proposal is currently with a planning case officer.
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