Bradford shops and homes plan for former pub resubmitted

The plans for the former Hare & Hounds pub include new shops and homes

Plans to turn a former pub in Bradford into homes and shops have been resubmitted after an initial application was refused.

Bradford Council's planning committee rejected the proposals for the Hare & Hounds pub on Toller Lane last month.

They included plans to convert the pub into three retail units with three upstairs apartments. Four town houses would also be built on the car park.

The new plans are expected to be decided on at a meeting on 27 March.

Councillors cited "insufficient information" about the project's environmental impact in the first application as their reason for rejection.

The plans for new homes on the site would have seen the construction of four four-bedroom town houses with garages, parking spaces and gardens as well as two two-bedroom flats and a one-bedroom flat, which would have required an extension of the pub building.

'Acceptable in principle'

The retail units would also include a convenience store, according to the application, which claimed 24 jobs would be created on the site.

Eight of the current 52 car parking spaces there would be lost under the proposals.

But four additional disability spaces and 24 cycling spaces would be created.

Planning officers previously said the development was "acceptable in principle" despite attracting 27 objections.

According to the application, the pub has been shut since September 2022.