PLANS for new industrial units have been approved after the developer agreed to reduce the scale of the scheme.

Rise Mentoring on Ripley Road, West Bowling, has been shut since 2014, and earlier this year an application to convert the site into industrial was submitted to Bradford Council by City Park Building Solutions.

The application would see the building demolished and three industrial units built in its place.

An existing industrial building on the site would be refurbished and divided into three larger units.

Highways officers had originally objected to the plan, saying it would be an “overdevelopment of the site” and that it would cause highway safety issues.

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After discussions with the Council, the applicant agreed to reduce the size of the planned units. The refurbished building will now be divided into four smaller units, the demolished building would now be replaced with two units, not three, and there would be more space on the site for vehicles to turn.

Planning officers said: “By reducing the size of the units, it will attract much smaller scale industrial businesses, thereby reducing the number of large service vehicles needing to access the site.”

There will be 17 parking spaces on the site, some with EV charging points.