A Bradford restaurant owner has backed down over plans to open until the early hours after residents raised concerns over noise, litter and trouble.

But plans to open a steak house on the site of the former Little Chef in Rooley Lane are still on the table, councillors said today.

Quaisar Aziz, of Hanq Investments, the company building the restaurant, had applied to open from 6am to midnight during the week and from 6am to 3am from Thursdays to Saturdays.

Under existing permission the restaurant is allowed to stay open until 10pm.

At a meeting of Bradford Planning Panel in City Hall today, councillors said they could not support the proposed new opening times because of the “major problems” late-night opening would cause for residents.

People living in the area fear their lives will be blighted by anti-social gangs and restaurant customers dropping litter and leaving noisily late at night.

planning panel chairman Councillor David Robinson said he would not support Mr Aziz’s plans.

Instead, he said he would offer the developers an “olive branch” by suggesting the steak house would be allowed to extend its opening times on Saturdays until 3am the next day but close at midnight on every other day.

Mr Aziz said: “If we only get Saturday late opening, then we will have to take that.”

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