INDUSTRIAL units can be built on a vacant site in Keighley after plans were scaled back.

Last summer a planning application to build five light industrial units on the former site of Parkwood House on Parkwood Street was submitted to Bradford Council by Shillelagh Property.

Since then the applicants have agreed to scale back the plans - now proposing four units.

Plans for industrial units on the site date back a decade, although an application for five units was refused in 2012, with an appeal over that decision dismissed due to concerns over how traffic would enter and exit the site from Parkwood Street.

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As well as reducing the number of units, the new plans had a different entry point.

Planning officers said: "The problem with the previous historic application on the site has been addressed and whilst Parkwood Street remains a busy road, the street includes traffic calming and in addition the scheme has been reduced/redesigned with a quite generous access that should be suitable for the size and nature of this development.

"The scheme will provide employment and economic benefits, re-using a previously developed and tidying up an unkempt site."