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Dalton Mills complex will be going under the hammer next week

8:20am Thursday 9th December 2010 in Keighley By Keighley News reporter

One of Keighley’s largest surviving mill buildings will go under the auctioneer’s hammer next week.

Dalton Mills has been partially restored in recent years to provide offices, factories and homes.

It has also been used as the setting for TV dramas, Bollywood films and BBC show Sunday Life.

The grade two listed former mill complex, in Dalton Lane, was built almost 140 years ago and once employed more than 1,000 workers.

In recent years it has become one of the key sites in the Airedale Masterplan, the local regeneration blueprint.

The mill’s current developer, Magna Holdings, has restored the clock tower and converted part of the mill into a successful business park.

Tenants range from wind turbine designers to screen and digital printers.

A spokeswoman for Magna Holdings said the company specialised in buying and developing large properties ready for resale.

She said: “It was always the intention to move Dalton Mills on. It’s been for sale for some time.” Magna had originally intended for a property developer to turn part of the mill into housing but the deal fell through as the property market collapsed.

The mill will be auctioned in two lots by King Sturge, in London, next Wednesday, at 2pm.

Potential buyers are being told the mill currently yields an annual rental income of almost £120,000 from commercial tenants.

Other buildings, although largely undeveloped, offer original features depicting the Venetian decorative style of the Victorian era.

The auctioneers say that after Salts Mill and Manningham Mills, Dalton Mills is considered the most architecturally important mill in the region.

Comments(8)

Fireman Fred says...
12:23am Sun 12 Dec 10

I see that they say it was originally intended to turn part of the mill into housing but the deal fell through as the property market collapsed. Now someone must be telling little porky's as Bradford County Council (BCC) insist on building on every bit of green land saying that it is much needed housing. hhhmmm property market collapsed or much needed houses, who is telling the truth and who is lying. By the way if anyone was to walk around Steeton they would see so many houses for sale that it is almost impossible to believe but yet BCC say there is a dire need for more.

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Uther Pendragon says...
9:54am Mon 13 Dec 10

Sorry Fred, you must be mixing up England with a democracy. Thats where the goverment and the local council make decisions that are in the best interest of the majority of the poulation. Notice how all towns and cities look the same, dominated by the same multi national outlets. Your local councils are obliged to grant planning permission simply because the do not have the funding or the manly bits to turn down plans and then fight very lengthy and expensive appeals. So they usually roll over and give in. Sorry mate but sadly "Might is always right"

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MarkPullen says...
12:22pm Mon 13 Dec 10

Not defending anyone but just an observation based on my attendance at all planning meetings held in my parish.
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These meetings are advertised locally and details are openly accessible on the BMDC website.
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I can count on one hand (with fingers to spare) the number of meetings which have been attended by members of the public wishing to contibute (either way) to a planning application being considered.
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Whilst I understand that the decision is not made at this level, it is an opportunity for the public to bring to the attention of the councillors any local issues to consider and communicate further down the process.

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Uther Pendragon says...
1:01pm Mon 13 Dec 10

Sorry Mark, but tell that to all the residents of Cross Hills, Steeton, Crossflats etc, etc, who have attended countless planning meetings, written to the Council and made there concerns known. I dare bet my pension, (for what its going to be worth) that all three of these planned devolopments go ahead regardless. Furthermore the plans may be for x no of two story homes but watch them grow into three stories as they go up! "Must be planting the in fertiliser?" Remember that the council members have minimal clout
and are obliged to carry out the wishes of central goverment. A case of lip service only to the constituents, and then "do as thee get teld" by
central goverment.

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MarkPullen says...
1:06pm Mon 13 Dec 10

Uther Pendragon wrote:
Sorry Mark, but tell that to all the residents of Cross Hills, Steeton, Crossflats etc, etc, who have attended countless planning meetings, written to the Council and made there concerns known. I dare bet my pension, (for what its going to be worth) that all three of these planned devolopments go ahead regardless. Furthermore the plans may be for x no of two story homes but watch them grow into three stories as they go up! "Must be planting the in fertiliser?" Remember that the council members have minimal clout
and are obliged to carry out the wishes of central goverment. A case of lip service only to the constituents, and then "do as thee get teld" by
central goverment.
No need to apologise to me - my comments was based, as I said, of applications which have been considered in my parish.

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Uther Pendragon says...
1:08pm Mon 13 Dec 10

Sorry Mark, but tell that to all the residents of Cross Hills, Steeton, Crossflats etc, etc, who have attended countless planning meetings, written to the Council and made there concerns known. I dare bet my pension, (for what its going to be worth) that all three of these planned devolopments go ahead regardless. Furthermore the plans may be for x no of two story homes but watch them grow into three stories as they go up! "Must be planting them in fertiliser?" Remember that the council members have minimal clout
and are obliged to carry out the wishes of central goverment. A case of lip service only to the constituents, and then "do as thee get teld" by
central goverment.

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Fireman Fred says...
3:51pm Mon 13 Dec 10

Unfortunately I have been to meetings of the planning panel and at one of them a blatant lie was told, this should have been picked up by the planning officers but as they were determined to get the application passed it was ignored. I have no trust in the planning officers whatsoever and think they should all be removed to make way for some new blood who, with a bit of luck, would at least try to do the job correctly. Why can't we have a system whereby if we think that council officers are not capable of doing the job we can vote them out.

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MarkPullen says...
7:56pm Sat 1 Jan 11

Sadly only a shell to sell in places after the fire on the 1st January. :(

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