A RUN DOWN, Grade II listed building in Bradford city centre will be refurbished after plans allowing part of it to be converted into flats was approved.
Nezeen Ali had applied to refurbish 12 Rawson Place (pictured), an empty four-storey shop in Rawson Quarter, to create an improved shop unit and five apartments. The shop was formally a mini market that shut in November, and the upper floors of the Jacobean-Flemish building have been derelict for several years.
Planning permission was not needed for the upper floors to be converted into flats, but the application was submitted because the plans required the building to be altered to provide a new entrance doorway for access to the flats.
Four of the flats will be one bedroom while the top floor accommodation will be a two-bedroom flat. Existing plastic window frames will be replaced by traditional timber frames.
Approving the application, planning officers said: "The proposed alterations to the shopfront would create a means of access to the upper floors are modest and sympathetic to the grade II listed building and the wider conservation area."
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