A HOUSING development in Bingley has been refused over concerns it would have an “unacceptable impact on highway safety.”

Plans for land behind Brook House on Bradford Road would have seen three houses built on the vacant site.

Access to the site would have been via an unadopted lane that already provides access to four houses.

The application, by Rob Christie, has been refused by Bradford Council after Highways Officers questioned how suitable this access point would be.

READ MORE: Retirement home plan for former Magistrates' Court site in Bingley

They said: “The means of access to the site is via a narrow, unadopted lane which emerges onto the B6265 classified road at a point with restricted visibility and where the footway is a route to the nearby secondary school.

“The proposed development would bring the number of properties served by this sub-standard access to seven dwellings.

“The intensification of use of the access would give rise to an unacceptable impact on highway safety.”

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to keep up with all the latest news.

Sign up to our newsletter to get updates sent straight to your inbox.

Have you got a story for us? Email newsdesk@telegraphandargus.co.uk or contact us here or call us on 01274 705292.