EFFORTS to restore the frontage of a listed building has taken yet another twist.

In 2011 Bradford Council approved plans for a replacement timber shop front on Grade II listed 6 Rawson Place, a city centre building that dates back to the 1870s.

However, a glass and aluminium frontage was built instead.

After intervention from the Council, Applicant Jamil Ashraf tried multiple times to get retrospective permission to retain the shop front, but was refused each time, with Council officers claiming it was inappropriate for a listed building.

The building has remained vacant for several years.

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He appealed the most recent decision, and earlier this year an inspector granted permission to retain the frontage.

One condition was that applicant restore some areas of the frontage, and provide detailed plans of this restoration work.

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The most recent application submitted to the Council was supposed to provide these details, thus satisfying the conditions of the appeal approval.

If approved by the Council, work could then continue to restore and retain the frontage.

But now the Council has refused this application, saying the plans lack detail, and drawings were in too small a scale.

Regarding the plans, which were meant to show details of the building's fascia, stallrisers, pilasters and aluminium framing, Planning officers said: "The appeal decision requires detailed drawings at a scale of not less than 1:20. The submitted plans do not meet this requirement, since they are at a scale of 1:50.

"The submitted information provides no information beyond that submitted as part of the original application.

"Full details of how all of the elements of the proposed shopfront are to be constructed are required at the correct scale to satisfy this condition."