Work to transform the former West Herts College campus in Kings Langley into a new residential community is set to start after detailed plans for the site were approved.
Bellway North London is set to build 65 new one and two-bedroom apartments at the development, to be known as Millworks, on the one-acre site off Home Park Mill Link Road.
The development will include a five-storey apartment building with mill-style gables and roofline, as well as landscaped open space next to the Mill Stream to the east of the site.
The detailed plans were approved on appeal in February. Three Rivers District Council had previously granted outline permission for the scheme.
Ali Maruf, Managing Director of Bellway North London, said: “This approval gives us the green light to forge ahead with our plans and means we can deliver on our promise to Kings Langley to provide much-needed new homes in the village.
“Our first job will be to undertake a six-month demolition programme to remove the former buildings of the college, which has moved to a new state-of-the-art campus four miles away in Hemel Hempstead.
“Once the demolition process has been completed, we can start on the groundworks which will see us repurpose this redundant college campus and convert it into an exciting new community.
“We are well aware of the history of the site as a papermill and the legacy of milling in the local area, which is mentioned as far back as the Domesday Book in 1086.
“The Millworks name is a tribute to this heritage and to the college which previously occupied the site and specialised in engineering and building services.”
Image: A computer-generated image of Bellway’s Millworks development on the former West Herts College site in Kings Langley, where work is now set to start
