BLUEPRINTS for a new £400,000 community centre in Cullingworth have been revealed ahead of them being submitted for approval.

The project’s steering committee has published artist’s impressions of the distinctive building, which is proposed for empty land behind the the village medical centre on Lodge Street.

Members of the public are being encouraged to look at the suggestions and give their feedback before they are submitted in a planning application.

There will be a public consultation event in the existing village hall on Monday, July 20 from 4.30pm to 7pm.

People can meet members of the Village Hall Renewal Committee, which is driving the project, and Langtry Langton, the local architects who have designed the proposed building.

Renewal Committee chairman Jill Logan urged villagers to go to the event.

"Your feedback is important before the planning application is submitted to Bradford Council," she said.

"This hall will provide much needed new and exciting facilities for the local community and we want to get it right."

The multi-use building would replace the current, overcrowded Cullingworth Village Hall in Station Road. It would incorporate a large hall with stage, a small hall, kitchen facilities and a cafe.

There would also be a dedicated space for the Cullingworth Pre-School, which was recently rated outstanding by Ofsted inspectors.

The next fundraising event is a fashion and pamper afternoon on Saturday, July 25 in the existing village hall, with exclusive clothes and accessories, beauty products, massage, nail treatments and card readings.

Ms Logan said the plans were almost fully-funded.

"Funding is always an issue, but an estimated 60 to 70 per cent of the funding is now in place. Regular fundraising events are held - concerts, cafes, sponsorship - and they [the committee] welcome any new ideas from people in the village and local companies."

If approved, the new village hall would be built with windfall cash due to Cullingworth as part of a major housing development currently under way at Manywells Brow.

Barratt David Wilson Homes had applied to build 233 homes and 2,160 sq metres of commercial floor space on former industrial land at the site.

The Council planners ordered the company to donate £410,000 of Section 106 funding, which ensures large-scale developers contribute towards community facilities to offset the impact of an increased population.

In September the Council voted to spend all of the Manywells cash on a new village hall and adjoining pre-school facility.