PLANS to designate a large section of Eccleshill as a Conservation Area will be discussed at a meeting on Thursday.

In 2022, Bradford Council received a petition signed by 170 people calling for older parts of Eccleshill village to be protected through a Conservation Area designation.

Since then, there has been a public consultation on the plans, and on Thursday morning members of Bradford Council’s Regulatory and Appeals Committee will be given an update on the push to protect the area’s heritage.

They will be advised to recommend to Council bosses that the Conservation area be approved.

The report says: “The area proposed to be designated as a Conservation Area includes a small area focused around Stony Lane, Stone Hall Road and Moorside Road, including Eccleshill Recreation Ground.

“This area includes a variety of buildings which are good examples of past local building techniques and materials as well as later Victorian and Edwardian buildings which provide a record of a time of increased prosperity, industrial development and population growth.”