Plans to construct a restaurant and retail models on the previous Gallopers pub web site on Wakefield Street have been first authorised in 2020.
However years later, the location stays vacant and overgrown.
The applicant behind the plans says they’re “desirous to implement” the planning permission, however Bradford Council officers’ issues over the restaurant’s design are holding issues up.
The scheme would see a restaurant and a row of 4 small outlets constructed on the location.
Earlier this 12 months an utility to amend the design of the restaurant was submitted by the Redbeck Group.
The corporate argued that rising constructing prices meant they needed to revisit the restaurant’s authorised design to maintain the event financially viable.
The constructing would now be clad in aluminium knotwood reasonably than the authorised timber cladding.
Bradford Council refused this variation final month, saying the brand new design was rather more “blocky” than what planners authorised in 2020.
They added: “The proposed supplies would lead to much-reduced visibility all through the type of the authorised restaurant constructing.
“The ensuing type would seem overly giant, seen, and overbearing when seen from surrounding highways.”
The candidates have now lodged an enchantment in opposition to this determination – that means a planning inspector will now have a last say on the proposals.
Their enchantment stated: “The appellant is raring to implement the planning approval, however seeks to switch the exterior supplies primarily attributable to viability motives.
“The appellant considers the proposed change of supplies to be not solely consistent with the location and its environment but additionally extra beneficial from a viability perspective. For the reason that granting of consent in 2020, building prices have elevated considerably.
“The modifications would represent a minor change that may be barely noticeable when seen from the freeway.
“The proposed restaurant unit would proceed to have a putting look attributable to a intelligent association of timber and glazing which is nicely suited to its prominence when seen from Wakefield Street.
“The appellant is looking for to strike the right stability between attaining viability in a drastically altering economic system and offering a great high quality improvement.
“Native planning authorities ought to search for options reasonably than issues, and decision-takers at each degree ought to search to approve functions for sustainable improvement the place attainable.”