EMPTY office space in a town shopping centre could soon be converted into flats.
The first and second floors of a section of the Five Rise Shopping Centre in Bingley – above two vacant banking units – is the subject of the latest application to create flats in upper floor spaces.
The application is to ask Bradford Council if planning permission is needed for the resi-dential conversion to go ahead.
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Recent changes to planning law by Government make it much easier for developers to convert vacant office space without going through the usual planning process.
Councils can only refuse such conversions if officers raise serious environmental or traffic concerns.
The plans, submitted by Peter Burke, show that five of the apartments would be two-bed, and three would be one-bed.
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