Plans to convert house into butcher's shop refused

Planning permission to open a butcher's shop on Maidstone Street was refused by Bradford Council

Plans to turn a terraced house on a street with "significant traffic issues" into a butcher's shop have been refused.

An application to convert the ground floor of 131 Maidstone Street in Bradford was submitted by Sonia Nosheen earlier this summer.

The proposals said the shop would be "very helpful to the local community" and would be unlikely to generate any extra traffic as most people would walk there.

However, the plans were turned down this week after highways officers at Bradford Council raised concerns, saying the house was in "an area which already experiences significant parking and traffic issues".

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, council officers said the new business "would result in further parking and vehicular movements to and from the site, further exacerbating the existing highway problems".

"If approved the proposal would therefore likely lead to conditions prejudicial to pedestrian and highway safety," they added.

A report by planning officers said there had been 15 objections to the proposed butcher's shop.

However, there had also been 36 letters of support, highlighting the "convenience of having a food shop within walking distance".

But planning officers pointed out that while the objections were mainly from local residents, the letters of support were from people outside the immediate area, and as far as Leeds.

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