A BRADFORD-based textile firm has submitted plans to Bradford Council to construct a new purpose-built warehouse in the city.

The warehouse, which will be used for storage of products before they are distributed, would be constructed on a plot currently occupied by NG Bailey in Cutler Heights Lane, Dudley Hill, by James Robinson Fibres Ltd.

The company, one of the leading and oldest suppliers of manmade staple fibres and recycled textile wastes in the UK, currently has its head office and a warehouse in the Euroway Industrial Estate, along with another base in Elland, Halifax, and an international warehouse in Taiwan.

It was founded 160 years ago in Bradford, and supplies products predominantly to the furniture, furnishings, bedding, carpet and blanket industries operating worldwide.

At the site of the proposed new warehouse, construction is already underway for a new manufacturing building, two small offices, and it has access from both Cutler Heights Lane and Holme Wood Road.

The application’s design and access statement says the new warehouse would allow a “synergy in use of resources” between nearby businesses.

The new warehouse would also create ten new jobs on top of the jobs being created at the manufacturing building which is currently being built.

If approved, the warehouse will stand seven metres in height and be of brick construction, with cladding of various colours, aluminium steel doors and electrically operated roller shutters and dock levellers.

The warehouse will form the second phase of the development on the site.

It follows the ongoing construction of the manufacturing building, which involved the demolition of one wing of the office block.

As part of the development there will be up to 80 car parking spaces created, including two disabled parking bays, and secure parking for bicycles. The development has nearby public transport links.

Public consultation is open until Friday, June 23. To comment, visit the Council’s planning website, or write to the Planning Service at Britannia House, Hall Ings, Bradford BD1 1HX, quoting the planning reference 17/02984/MAF.