Developers behind ambitious plans for a new superstore in Shipley said public feedback led them to move the store 43 metres closer to the town centre.

GMI Developments Ltd has submitted a planning application to Bradford Council for an 80,000 sq ft food store on the site of Crossley Evans scrap yard, which runs alongside part of the railway off Otley Road.

Up to 350 new jobs, plus about 100 construction-related roles, would be generated, GMI said.

Plans for the superstore with a separate café/restaurant, a 12-pump petrol station and 364 covered car parking spaces, were shown to the public earlier this year.

The application also includes a new car park for Shipley railway station, free short-stay parking for visitors to the town, pedestrian crossings between the station and Shipley centre and extra cycle links.

But Crossley Evans boss Matthew Evans is not happy about possibly being moved off the site which is owned by Network Rail and DB Schenker Rail (UK).

Telegraph & Argus readers had a varied response to an earlier story about the planning application on our website.

Reader ‘Apollo’ said: “The site will be so heavily polluted and therefore constrained in its future use as to be very expensive to turn into a 'retail park”.

Baildon Girl said: “Shipley definitely needs another supermarket, Asda is far too over-crowded.”

Managing director of GMI, Chris Gilman, said the firm had received support for its plans and feedback had led to some changes.

He added: “The plans now see the whole store actually positioned much closer to the town centre, a separate car park for rail users and improved pedestrian linkages, both with the town centre and the station.”

He said the firm was working to find a new site for Crossley Evans.