A SECOND bid to bring an end to a long-running dispute over a large extension built at a Brighouse hotel and restaurant has been submitted a month after plans were narrowly defeated.

At the end of May committee members turned down a proposal to demolish part of the original building at Casa Hotel and Restaurant in Elland Road, Brighouse, despite planners recommending the downsized scheme be approved.

The revised scheme had been submitted after negotiations with Calderdale Council planners in a bid to reach an agreement over the planning row.

A spokesman for the hotel and restaurant said last month it was hopeful it could submit further amendments that would be acceptable to all.

Now further plans have been submitted to the Council for consideration but it is unclear how they differ from the plans which were refused last month.

The company which runs Casa lost a planning appeal in 2015 over a large extension built without the correct planning permission.

Castelite Ltd was initially told it had nine months to demolish the three-storey addition.

But a subsequent High Court appeal last year quashed that decision and a fresh decision from the planning inspectorate is yet to be made.

In a design and access statement submitted by the application with the earlier plans, the applicant stated that the new scheme would reorganise the premises by demolishing some of the older parts of the building, and move those uses into the recently-built extension.

“As part of this exchange there is an opportunity to redesign the internal spaces to accommodate those uses and also to change the external design and materials so as to have a less intrusive appearance.

“The surrounding site will be landscaped to restore the wooded setting and this includes part of the areas used for car parking without losing spaces.”

The scheme involves reducing the volume of the venue by 20 per cent from the appeal plans as well as changing the colour of the building from white to cream and brown.

Planning officers believed that although the site is in the green belt there were very special circumstances, such as increased jobs, economic benefits and the minimised disruption through conditions around the new terrace facility.

They stated in their earlier report that it created “an overall smaller but much more coherent scheme” and that it remained “prominent due to its size, but the proposed colours and textures fit more comfortably into the landscape”.

Chairman of the planning committee, Councillor David Kirton, told the Telegraph & Argus last month that the vote against the plans was extremely close.

“Three members voted against the plans, and two abstained. If it had been any other day, the plans could have well been passed, given how close the vote was,” he said.

No one was available at Casa for comment.