PLANS to restore a building in the Green Belt to create a new home have been refused by planners a second time.

Bradford Council had refused the first application to refurbish and expand the Gatehouse at Upper Shibden Hall, off Halifax Road, Queensbury last year.

They said the plans, which would have seen a large extension built on the crumbling building, converting it into a three-bedroom house, would be "disproportionate" and harmful to the Green Belt.

Applicants Shibden Estate Company appealed the decision, but a government inspector sided with Bradford Council and dismissed the appeal this Spring.

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A second application was then submitted, with a smaller extension described by the applicants as "modest."

But this plan has now also been refused by the Council, with officers saying the planned extension was still too big a project to allow on Green Belt land.

As well as an extension to the building, the development would have introduced parking for two cars and a garden area.

Planning officers decision said: "Within such (green belt) areas it is both national and local planning policy to severely restrict new development unless it is for a purpose appropriate in the green belt or it is for a limited extension to an existing dwelling.

"The proposed extension would amount to a disproportionate addition over and above the size of the original dwellinghouse and the result is considered to be an inappropriate development within the green belt which is by definition harmful."