Supermarket giant Tesco must pay Bradford Council more than £1m to build a controversial new store, it has emerged.

In September Tesco won permission for a new shop in Mayfield Road, Ilkley, after Government planning inspector Harold Stephens overturned a Council decision to refuse the plan.

Mr Stephens, who chaired an eight-day planning appeal to hear Tesco arguments against the Council decision, also granted outline permission for the company to transform its current store in Springs Lane into a 60-bedroom care home and retail units.

Although the path is now clear for Tesco to build its new store on the site of the old Spooner Industries factory, it is subject to a raft of conditions.

And as a result of some of those conditions and Section 106 legal agreements, Tesco must stump up more than £1m for a range of provisions.

A new report to the Council’s Keighley Area Planning Panel, which meets on Wednesday, outlines where the Tesco money will be spent.

The report says: “The Council has the power to enter into a legal agreement with a developer under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, to make acceptable development which might otherwise be unacceptable in planning terms.”

Under agreement with the Council for the new store in Mayfield Road, Tesco will pay £583,000 and £314,000 for two phases of highway provision, while £136,000 will go to public transport.

For the work on the Springs Lane site, £9,150 will go towards open space, £3,000 will go towards a bus stop and £3,000 will go towards Traffic Regulation Orders.

In total, Tesco will pay £1,048,750 to the Council.

Meanwhile, management at Tesco are still drawing up plans for the current site in Springs Lane, in a bid to gain full planning permission for work to begin once the new superstore is opened.

The company claims all the work on both sites will create full-time jobs and add to the 290,000 members of staff it currently has working in more than 2,500 stores across the UK.