AN all day breakfast cafe could soon be operating in a bar in Bradford’s 'Top of Town' area.

The Silver Fox opened in a former cooker shop on Rawson Square in late 2019 and is most popular on days when Bradford City plays home games.

A planning application to convert the upper floors of the building into two, one-bed flats has now been submitted to Bradford Council.

The proposals also reveal that plans are in place for the bar to operate as an all day breakfast cafe during the day.

And the application also involves work to the building’s frontage – approved as part of the bar’s planning approval in 2019 but never implemented.

The two upper floors of the building - which lies within the North Parade Conservation Area and is described as a “key, unlisted building” - are currently vacant.

The site has recently benefitted from multi-million pound, Lottery-funded works to the North Parade area that has seen wider pavements and street planting.

When the bar plan was first proposed, there were concerns that it would be another business in the area that only opened in the evenings, leaving much of the Top of Town shut through the day.

But the plans were approved when applicant Haseeb Raja ensured planners the venue would open through the day, operating as a cafe/deli, before becoming a bar in the evening.

The new application, also by Mr Raja, says: “The owner has identified a tenant who wishes to take over the ground floor during the day to operate an all day breakfast cafe and wishes to develop the vacant upper floors through change of use to create 2 No’ 1-bedroom apartments.

“They are also seeking to carry out some previously uncompleted works to the facade of the property, including signage, pilasters and shop front awnings.

“Formerly known as The Cooker Centre, the building is an attractive 19th-century commercial property with an unusual canted front. The property reflects the line of the previous road, but now benefits from a generous paved and landscaped square to the front.

“Having obtained planning permission to operate The Silver Fox cafe and bar from the premises, the operator has found footfall and business quieter since the pandemic, and now only tends to open on match days.

“The owners have secured new ground floor tenant who wish to relocate their all day breakfast cafe to this premises, as their existing site is set for demolition.

“It is proposed to retain the bar functions in the evenings.”

Work to the frontage will include the removal of metal cladding façade, to be replaced with timber fascia and with sunshade canopies to be opened when trading.

A decision on the planning application is expected next month.