Bradford Council has applied for permission to build 81 homes and reinstate ten allotments.

The scheme on a site to the south of 20 to 44 Pollard Lane in Undercliffe, Bradford, is being recommended for approval by planners at a meeting of Bradford Planning Panel on Thursday at City Hall.

It is the asset management department of the Council – which manages property and land owned by the authority – that has applied for the permission in both cases.

A report says the 2.8 hectare housing site is greenfield and is next to Bradford Moor golf course. The southern part has been used as allotments, but is now overgrown.

Objections include that the site is used as a play area, that there is a lack of open space in the development, it will have an adverse impact on residential amenity and lead to an increase in crime.

Mike Bell, the Council’s assistant director asset management, said: “The site is already allocated for housing in the Council’s Revised Unitary Development Plan and the development would have to include an element of affordable housing. As part of the application Asset Management want to make it a condition that any developer must create ten new allotments to a high standard at the southern end of the site. The site is a mixture of waste land and derelict allotments and we are keen to encourage new allotment use in the area.

“If we secured outline planning permission we would look to offer the site for sale on the open market at some stage in the future.”