Plans to demolish 25 garages in Chorleywood and replace them with a block of six flats have been refused.

There are currently two blocks of garages running along the site, which is behind Green Street.

Planning permission already exists to replace them with a pair of semi-detached properties.

But the new plans were for four two-bed flats and two one-bed flats, in a two-storey ‘L’ shaped block, instead.

At a meeting of the Three Rivers District Council's planning committee, on Thursday (October 18), councillors rejected the plans.

A report by the council’s planning officers had recommended that the proposals should be granted.

However there were concerns put forward by Chorleywood Parish Council that this would be an over development of the site.

The parish council were also concerned that the parking “falls way short of the allocation” and the impact people going in and out of the site would have.

In refusing the application, members of the the committee pointed to a shortage of parking and amenity space to serve the development.