PLANS to turn a former library building into a large family home can still go ahead after a new planning application was approved.

Haworth Road Library was closed by Bradford Council in 2017 as part of a shakeup in library services.

The building sold at auction for £181,000 later that year.

Since the library shut a community library has opened at nearby St Martin’s Church.

In 2019, an application to turn the building into a house was approved. The plans would include a wrap around extension that would drastically increase the size of the building.

Work to build this home never began and the permission expired.

In May another application for the same work was submitted.

Approving this latest plan, officers said: “The proposal to convert the vacant library to a new dwelling is deemed to be acceptable and the proposed design is in keeping with the surrounding built form.”