PLANNING officers say a development of two cottages in an industrial area of Wakefield Road would provide “inadequate living conditions” for future residents.

Bradford Council has this week refused a planning application t demolish a workshop building on Broom Street and replace it with the two dwellings.

Each house would have just one room on the ground floor - a combined living room/kitchen, and two rooms upstairs, a bedroom and small bathroom.

There would be no garden, yard or bin storage area, and they would be single aspect - backing onto an industrial building.

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Officers said the application, by Steve Moxon, would provide just 40 square metres of living space - well below the 58 square metre minimum required for one bed, two storey homes under council policy.

Refusing the application, officers added: "National Described Space Standards for a two storey one-bedroom dwelling requires 58sqm as a minimum gross internal floor area. The proposed 40sqm internal floor space for each dwelling as a whole significantly fails to achieve the space standards required to allow for satisfactory living conditions.

"In the absence of the justification for the non-compliance with the space standards, combined with the lack of outdoor amenity space, the proposal is considered harmful to the living conditions and amenity of future occupants."