Plans for shop in residential street refused

The convenience store would have been attached to a house on Staveley Road

Plans to build a convenience store in the middle of a residential street in Keighley have been refused.

An application for a single-storey retail unit on Staveley Road was submitted to Bradford Council, to "bring a much-needed amenity to the local area".

It would have been attached to a house, with the applicant Habib Moghaddam asking for a garage to be demolished to make way for it.

But planners said the shop would be "entirely at odds with the character of the area" and rejected the application.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the application received 43 objections and Keighley Town Council had requested for the plans to be refused.

Some of the concerns included the impact of customer parking, as the property is next to the junction of a single-lane road.

Refusing the application, planning officers said: "The proposal could potentially introduce a substantial amount of traffic movements.

"The area is largely residential properties with limited or no off-street parking and as such on-street parking demand is already high."

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