AN application to open a new gym at an industrial estate in Bingley has been refused by Bradford Council.

The application, submitted by gym chain Your Zone 45, aimed to change the use of half of an industrial unit into a training studio on Castlefields Industrial Estate

However, permission was refused by Bradford Council, with concerns raised over parking at the site, and also the use of an industrial building for leisure.

Laura Eastwood, planning officer, said: "The proposed use will result in a loss of employment premises and, being a main town centre leisure use, is in situated in an unsustainable area outside any established town or district centre.

"In the absence of any special circumstances or justification, such a use is unacceptable.

"There is no evidence to demonstrate that the gym could function without overspill affecting car parking for other businesses and without potentially affecting the essential circulation and manoeuvring of traffic within the business park."