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THE company hoping to redevelop a semi-derelict mill at Pool-in-Wharfedale has stripped out the restaurant and bar part of its plans.

Post Vintage Engineers Ltd had wanted to create a restaurant and bar, with car parking, new offices and business units at Pool Mills. Those proposals would have involved demolishing a brick building at the front of the site, that faces onto Pool Road, and refurbishing the properties at the rear.

But the plans were rejected at the last meeting of Leeds Plans Panel (West) after highways officer Gillian Macleod had told the meeting they would have created unacceptable levels of traffic.

The panel was also told that the out-of-town, Green Belt location was not a suitable or sustainable site for the uses being proposed - a claim disputed by Post Vintage Engineers, who pointed out that the site was served by peak-hour buses in both directions.

Some councillors did back the plan, pointing out the benefits it would bring to the rural economy and in getting rid of a derelict building, but in the end a slight majority voted to refuse it.

Now Post Vintage Engineers has resubmitted an amended plan that has removed the restaurant and bar in favour of creating more office space in their place.

The developer claims this would significantly reduce the parking required on-site and thereby quash one of the main concerns raised by the panel - about parking "overspilling" onto Pool Road.

2:11pm Saturday 10th May 2008

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