PLANS for another new business on one of Shipley’s main roads have been revealed.

A proposed Formula One Autocentre on the former site of a car wash on Otley Road would create 10 jobs, according to a new planning application submitted to Bradford Council.

The site, between the entrance to Crossley Evans scrap yard and the town’s Laura Ashley store, has been used as an informal car park since the car wash was demolished over six years ago.

The application by GMI Developments is for a automotive fitting / MOT centre business for Formula One Autocentres, and says the new business would be a suitable use for the prominent empty site.

The planning application says: “The site’s prominence leading into Shipley and proximity to the retail town centre make it ideal for redevelopment as a roadside use.

“The proposed use is wholly in keeping with the area and is within the same industry (auto) as the previous use.

“Established in 1974, Formula One Autocentres set out with a mission to deliver a completely new fast-fit experience to its customers.

“Each autocentre is a clean modern premise, featuring high-tech equipment and highly trained technicians; far removed from the kind of service normally associated with the industry.

“GMI have successfully delivered some of the region’s most high-profile developments including Thorpe Park, the North East’s premier business park extending to over 200 acres and Bridgewater Place in Leeds. They have also extensive knowledge of working with local authorities on complex regeneration schemes, including the procurement of the redevelopment of Clay Cross town centre in Derbyshire.”

The application says the new business will create 10 full time jobs if approved.

Filling station plan for former Shipley showroom site

In recent years the site was earmarked for a drive thru coffee shop - with a planning application to demolish the car wash and build a cafe in its place approved in 2013. But that development never went ahead.

When plans to build a supermarket on the Crossley Evans site were proposed later that year, the site would have made up part of the large development, which would have also included a cafe, stand-alone restaurant and petrol station.

But those plans also never went ahead after a rival supermarket plan for Windhill was approved, and the site has since been used as a car park - albeit an unofficial one.

The Autocentre proposal is the latest of a number of planned new businesses on that area of Otley Road.

A planning application was recently submitted to demolish the former Colin Appleyard showroom opposite this site and build a new petrol filling station, car wash and convenience store in its place.

That application, by Valli Forecourts, will create 30 jobs if approved.

A neighbouring building, also recently vacated by Colin Appleyard, could be turned into a dessert parlour if a separate application, by Sajid Sadiq, is approved.

That business is predicted to create three full time and two part time jobs.

And a new gym is soon due to open in a prominent building at the junction of Otley Road and Market Street.

Bradford Council is expected to make a decision on the Autocentre plan next month.