A renewed attempt has been made to transform the former Bront Cinema, in Haworth, into housing.

Owner Robert Snowden has applied for outline planning permission to provide homes on the Victoria Road site.

Mr Snowden, who is in his 60s, is making initial inquiries before retiring from the scrap metal business he runs in the building.

Options include turning the cinema into flats, knocking it down to make way for new housing or keeping the business going.

Michael Beaumont, Mr Snowden's agent, this week said his client wanted to capitalise on his investments as he approaches retirement.

The application to Bradford council - which does not include detailed plans - is part of an exercise in finding out what the site could be used for.

An alternative plan to seek heritage funding to turn the premises back into a cinema has been shelved because it is not a listed building.

Mr Snowden applied in 1993 to convert the cinema into 24 one-bedroom flats on three floors.

The Bront Cinema opened in 1921 and closed in 1956. The village's only other cinema, the Hippodrome, closed five years after a drop in attendances.

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