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PROPOSALS to open a petrol filling station 24 hours a day have been refused for the second time in six months.
Planning officers feel that allowing the Texaco filling station on Leeds Road in Shipley to open throughout the night would mean neighbouring residents would suffer “harm from late night operating noises.”
Currently the filling station opens between 7am and 11pm, but earlier this year a planning application to amend those hours was submitted by Nakendram Piratheepan.
But the application was refused by Bradford Council, with planners describing the proposed opening times as “anti-social.”
There are numerous houses to the rear of the filling station – which is on one of the main routes into Shipley.
A second application for extended hours was submitted earlier this summer, this time including a Noise Impact Assessment and a Noise Management Plan.
It says: “The Noise Impact Assessment concludes that the proposed extension of operating hours would have a Low Impact at all assessed residential receptors and considers the proposed 24-hour operation to be acoustically acceptable.”
But planning officers at the Council have disagreed, and the application has now been refused.
An officer’s report said: “The proposed variation of these operating hours to enable the petrol filling station and associated convenience store to be open 24 hours 7 days a week will result in them operating throughout the night.
“The site is adjacent to and in close proximity to residential properties, allowing the premises to operate on a 24-hour basis and throughout the night would result in residential amenity harm from late night operating noises, especially at a time when other noise and general disturbance from the surroundings are relatively low.
“Councils often limit late-night hours to protect residents from noise and disturbance.”
Referring to the application that was refused earlier this year, officers said: “The same issues and concerns previously raised still apply.”
“It is noted that additional supporting information has been submitted with this latest application in the form of an acoustic survey report, a noise management plan and a planning statement.
“If the petrol filling station and associated convenience store were to operate and be open to customers on a 24 hour basis it is highly likely that residents adjacent to and within close proximity of the site will be disturbed by the noise from vehicle movements, car doors, vehicle engines, plant noise and other external equipment associated with the petrol filling station and shop to the detriment of their residential amenity.”