Councillors have urged officers to talk to villagers after rejecting plans to develop Council-owned land, which has been used as a car park for more than two decades.
Members of Bradford Council’s Shipley area planning panel want officers to meet with residents of Valley View, in Harden, with a view to allowing them to buy the land from the Council to use for parking.
They said the application by Bradford Council to build a house on the land, at the end of the residential street, would be detrimental to road safety and access, despite an officer recommendation to approve the scheme.
The land can currently cater for up to 12 cars, but the Council wanted to reduce the number to three as well as building on the land, which has been used for parking since garages were demolished during the mid-1980s.
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