A developer has submitted a rival multi-million-pound bid for West Bowling Golf Club's scenic course and historic clubhouse.

The offer comes as Leeds-based Landmark Development Ltd waits for a public inquiry into its planning application for a £110 million business park which could create 5,000 jobs.

Landmark's purchase of the land and clubhouse, off Rooley Lane, depends on the result of the inquiry, which is due to start on November 11.

But Younger Homes (North-ern) Limited has put in a new offer to the golf club to buy the site to develop its own business park.

This week the club committee was considering the bid, and an extraordinary general meeting for the club's 350 members will be held next Tuesday.

Long-serving member Michael Robinson said the players wanted full details of the situation, the new offer, and Bradford Council's stance on the issue.

Mr Robinson, of Culling-worth, a member for 20 years, said: "This has dragged on for much too long and the club is blighted. It is going to be sold whatever happens and I want it to be wound up with the assets distributed to the members."

Mr Robinson said the majority of members wanted the club wound up to use their proceeds to join another club of their choice, with certainty about the future.

The original proposals by Landmark would swallow up the course and leave the club's 300-year-old listed clubhouse with a roundabout around it.

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has decided to call the planning application in for a public inquiry because he wants to know more about the shopping element of the scheme - a B&Q super store - and its effect on the city centre. He also feels the application may be premature because the designation of the land is still being decided at a public inquiry into the district's Unitary Development Plan.

Bob Ibberson, director of Brighouse-based Younger Homes, said: "Our business park would completely comply with the UDP as a development which would create a large number of jobs. We have offered more than Landmark for the site."

He said the scheme was being financed with the backing of a major bank and it was hoped to start work as soon as possible if members accepted the offer and planning permission was obtained.

He added the company - which has developed a number of commercial sites in the Calderdale area, including the Croda Business Park in Brighouse - used its own staff rather than sub-contractors and had a highly successful apprenticeship scheme.

Today Richard Morton, director of Landmark Developments Limited, said it was determined to press ahead with its plans.

"West Bowling Golf Club may well be considering offers from other parties," he said.

"But we have lived with this project for two and a half years and undertaken detailed negotiations with the local authority, English Heritage, the Environment Agency, the Highways Agency, Yorkshire Electricity, Yorkshire Water, English Nature and various other organisations.

"Without the benefit of those detailed negotiations it would be impossible for anyone to value the golf club in the short term."

Club captain Andrew Frost said he could not comment on the new offer.