COUNCILLORS have delayed the verdict on a major development near Huddersfield town centre.
Kirklees’s Huddersfield Planning Sub-committee has deferred a decision on allowing an eight-storey building with shops, a restaurant and almost 90 flats on the corner of St Andrew’s Road and Wakefield Road in Aspley.
Wetherby-based CFK Developments wants to use 465 square metres for shops and 279 square metres for a restaurant or cafe on the ground floor and some 88 one and two-bedroom flats on upper floors.
But sub-committee members were unimpressed with the look of the proposed building.
Lib-Dem Clr Christine Stanfield said: “I’m disappointed with the design, considering this is a gateway site. In 10 years’ time are we going to end up with a shabby student block on the edge of town?”
Clr Molly Walton agreed. The Labour councillor said: “It’s a rather awful design. I think all of us on the sub-committee feel we want something doing with that.”
Councillors voted unanimously to delay the decision until planning officers and the developers have consulted further on the design.
The site is currently occupied by the Mid-Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce.
