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A disused pharmacy could become the site for a six-storey block to house businesses and flats.
Dr Mohammad Asif of Risk Associates Ltd is seeking approval to make the changes at the building known as The Old Bailey at Huddersfield Road, Elland.
Outline approval – establishing the use of the site and access – is sought at this stage, with a more detailed “reserved matters” application following, if planners agree.
Way back in 1888, it as mapped at the George and Dragon Inn and it was still a pub in the 1970s, but this use ceased, according to supporting papers with the application.
It was converted into a pharmacy in 2013 but has been empty since 2018 and is currently not in active use, say the statements.
Risk Associates want to demolish the building and instead build the new six-floor property which would include two commercial units on the ground floor, according to the plans submitted to Calderdale Council.
On the floors above, ten flats will be spread between the five upper floors, two on each, according to the application.
Each of these apartments will be two-bedroom, with private balcony provision, says the supporting statement.
Different accesses will serve the commercial and residential parts of the building.
The plans also include up to 12 car parking spaces at the side and back of the complex.
In heritage terms, based on its present external appearance and the available documentary evidence, the existing building is considered to have limited architectural and aesthetic value, argue planning consultants Homz in the supporting papers.
The site is outside, but next to, Elland Conservation Area.
A heritage statement notes that within 100 metres are the Grade I-listed Church of St Mary and Grade II-listed buildings on Southgate.
Only a “low level” of harm would result to these from the proposed new building, argue the consultants.
The application, number 26/00545/OUT, and supporting papers can be viewed on the council’s Planning Portal.