PLANS to build a bungalow on vacant land off Harrogate Road have been refused after planning officers claimed the house would be too small.

Proposals submitted to Bradford Council earlier this year called for the two-bed property to be built on Corporation Street, next to Harrogate Road Fisheries.

But planning officers said the plans, submitted by John Connolly, did not meet national space standards required for houses with two double bedrooms.

They said: “The proposed internal floor space provision of the dwelling would represent an oppressively confined form of residential accommodation, which fails to achieve the minimum floor area set out within the Nationally Described Space Standards.

Planned cottages would be so small they would be 'harmful to the living conditions of future occupants'

“Consequently the development is considered to provide unsatisfactory living conditions for future occupiers.”

They also said one bedroom window would look out over a parking space and the front door of the neighbouring house, offering residents “a limited and dismal outlook.”