Town councillors are appealing for a new museum for Borehamwood and Elstree to be included in plans for the re-development of three school premises.

Elstree and Borehamwood Town Council examined the borough council's plans for Furzehill, Lyndhurst and Hillside schools at a meeting on Thursday.

Members supported the borough's idea that a new town library should be built at Furzehill, but suggested that a new museum should go alongside it.

Town councillors also recommended that a new youth centre be built at the Hillside School site, to cater for young people living in the south of Borehamwood.

Councillor Bryan Stanley claimed that the Elstree and Borehamwood Community History Project, now based in Drayton Road, needed a new museum building.

"The project has been underway for some months now in temporary accommodation and it has been a great success," he said.

"But the room it has at the moment is not adequate to properly provide the museum that an area like Borehamwood and Elstree deserves."

The project opened its history room last November, when, using funding from the town and borough councils, it signed a two-year lease for the premises.

The town council believes that the future of the project will only be secure when it has its own permanent venue in which to stage exhibitions.

Hertsmere Borough Council, in its draft planning brief for the school sites, has proposed a new library, health centre and family clinic at Furzehill.

Mr Stanley said the town council also felt that the re-development presented a great to address the town's shortage of youth facilities.

"You could have one youth centre in the north of Borehamwood, The Lair at Lyndhurst School, and one in the south of Borehamwood, at the Hillside site," he said.

Hertsmere's planning brief suggests that The Lair youth club should get a new building at the school site, in Gateshead Road, to replace its existing home.

Borehamwood residents still have until June 27 to express their views on the draft planning brief, after which date the council will agree a formal policy for the three sites.