Plans to create 76 new flats in offices in Wooburn Green have been submitted to Buckinghamshire Council.

Mercury Park Ltd has proposed changing the use of seven buildings at the business park of the same name on Wycombe Lane to accommodate the apartments.

The company was set up last month, with one of its founders listed as Simon Zieg, a director of London-based developer Reavant Homes.

Seven separate planning applications have been submitted to turn the two-storey buildings at Mercury Park into housing.

The number of flats planned in each office block are as follows: Lunar House and Solar House (16), Olive House (10), Endeavour House (10), Neptune House (12), Apollo House (eight), Crayon House (12) and Saturn House (eight).

The planning statement for Saturn, in the southwest of the site, says that the existing two floors will be converted from offices into eight self-contained flats, two of which will have one bedroom, while six will have two bedrooms.

The plans state: “The layouts have been designed to use the internal space as efficiently as possible.”

All units will have ‘generous floor areas’, access to natural daylight and ventilation and ‘good levels of storage’, including cupboards and built-in wardrobes.

Access to the new flats will be via the existing ground floor main entrance on the western side of the building.

A total of 15 parking spaces are allocated for the new flats in Saturn, which is in line with the council’s parking standards of 1.5 spaces for a one-bedroom flat and two spaces for a two-bedroom flat, with the half spaces not being allocated.

Proposals also include providing new ‘secure cycle storage’ for this office block, with space for 18 bikes across four ‘Sheffield stands’.

Plans say that some external changes will be required for the flats, including changing some windows to become openable, as well as new doors and the removal of external staircases.

New private gardens and patios for the ground floor flats are also proposed.

The applicant’s plans read: “The change of use is in keeping with the general character of the building and the surrounding area.”

Environmental health officers from the council said they did not have any objection to the plans to transform Mercury Park.

Plans say the seven-acre business park has 12 buildings in total, plus a café, and is not located in a conservation area or adjacent to any listed building.

Mercury Park’s website describes the site as having ‘easy access to the M40, nearby train stations and a variety of local amenities’.