New measures to prevent fly tipping in a City Centre Conservation Area have been approved

A Conservation Area passageway can be gated off in a bid to stop fly tipping – planning officers have decided.

Earlier this Summer, a planning application to fit metal gates either side of a passage behind 132 Sunbridge Road was submitted to Bradford Council.

The privately owned passage is part of the Goitside Conservation Area, and links Grattan Road and Vincent Street.

It is used for bin storage for a 63-bed student flats building, but applicants Airedale House Management Company Limited said it was regularly misused, with people dumping litter or fly tipping around the bins.

They said gating off the area would help prevent this in future.

Conservation Officers supported the plans, saying the gates would not detract from the Conservation Area’s Victorian character.

Approving the new gates this week, planning officers said: “The gates will appear relatively insignificant in relation to the adjacent buildings.

“The proposal is not considered to form obtrusive features to result in visual amenity harm and is not considered to harm the character and significance of the conservation area or the setting of nearby listed buildings.”

One condition of the approval is that the 1.8m high gates will have to be painted black.