More about Bovingdon

Bovingdon is a relatively large but compact village, set in gently undulating farmland in the south of the borough. The village has a vibrant centre characterised by historic buildings and a reasonable provision of local shops and services. Bovingdon has good links to Hemel Hempstead and Chesham via the B405 (Chesham Road / Hemel Hempstead Road / Box Lane).

To the south-east of the village lies Bovingdon Green, Bovingdon Football Club and Bovingdon & Flaunden Tennis Club, which provide important sources of outdoor recreation space and sports facilities for the village. To the north-west lies HMP The Mount and Bovingdon Airfield, the latter providing employment opportunities within the film and television industry.

The village has also seen the broadening of the type of accommodation available to residents through the delivery of a new retirement complex on Hempstead Road. 

A Steering Group, reporting into the Parish Council, is preparing a Neighbourhood Plan for their parish. The document is now at an advanced stage of preparation.

The revised strategy for growth still allows for some change in the village. We believe that this is consistent with its size, character, the facilities available and general accessibility. In all other respects, we seek to limit overall growth in Bovingdon given local infrastructure capacity, and parking and congestion problems within the village centre.

While the increased housing focus on Hemel Hempstead has allowed us to reduce the overall growth in some of the other settlements, we consider that there is merit in continuing to retain the potential draft Green Belt allocation at Grange Farm (Bv01). 

We believe that the Grange Farm site continues to offer benefits for Bovingdon. It can deliver a range of housing, including family and affordable homes, community facilities and open space. There is also potential for linked local improvements within the village centre through the relocation of some existing community facilities from there to the site. The scheme also has local support in principle from Bovingdon Parish Council, subject to it delivering a number of key objectives and aspirations of their neighbourhood plan. A planning application has been submitted on the site (Reference 23/02034/MFA).

Progress is being made with the existing allocation for 40 homes at Chesham Road/Molyneaux Avenue (Bv02) adjacent to the prison site. A developer is now actively seeking to bring forward the site through the submission of a planning application (Reference 23/02178/MFA).