A SECOND attempt to gain permission for a development of shops, office space and flats on Manningham Lane has proved successful.

Last year plans to build a mixed use building next to 134 Manningham Lane were refused by planning officers, who said the plans “failed to respond to positive patterns of development" on the street.

Plans were amended and re-submitted, and this week planning officers have given the scheme the go ahead.

The new plans, by Tariq Mahmood, will include three shops on the ground floor and lower ground floor, an office on one floor and two, two bedroom flats on the second floor, as well as five parking spaces to the rear of the building.

The site is currently vacant.

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Planning officers said the building's new design better matched the neighbouring building - which dates back to 1890 and was once home to the Provident Industrial Society.

They also said more detail had now been provided about parking - the five spaces will be for the commercial side of the development, with residents of the flats given permit parking on Cornwall Road.

Officers said: "The property proposed on this plot is proposed to match the scale of the existing building at 134. The height is proposed to match that of 134 exactly, the eaves height will also match that of the adjoining property.

"The width of the new property has been reduced from that which was previously proposed and now appears much more proportionate to the existing building."