PLANS to turn a building on a busy junction in Manningham into a take away have been refused by Bradford Council.

Planning officers said the proposals to convert 31 Marlborough Road, on the junction with Lumb Lane, would lead to “indiscriminate parking of vehicles” at the busy junction.

And heritage officers had also raised concerns that the plans, submitted by Stephen Hoskin, would be “significantly harmful to the character of the area.”

The building is currently classed as a hairdressers, and lies within the Apsley Crescent conservation area.

Planning officers said: "Marlborough Road is situated on a busy highway and close to a busy junction and offers very little opportunity for customer parking. One space is indicated to the front of the property, but even the use of this is likely to adversely impact the safe and free flow of traffic.

"There is no parking within the immediate vicinity, which notwithstanding the parking restrictions in place the distances involved is likely to prove a greater temptation to parking indiscriminately to quickly pop in the premises."

Heritage officer Jon Ackroyd said the takeaway would require extraction and refrigeration units out the outside of the building, and the plans included an illuminated sign. He added: “These would be harmful to the character of the conservation area and to the setting of the neighbouring listed buildings.”