A HUDDERSFIELD engineering firm has tabled plans to demolish part of its complex – after a deal with supermarket giant Asda came to nought.

Thomas Broadbent & Sons Ltd hoped to vacate its site between Queen Street South , the ring road and Milford Street so that Asda could build a 49,000sq ft store.

But the Leeds-based retailer has been unable to win planning approval for the £40m store and the agreement with Broadbents has expired.

Now Broadbents has reaffirmed its intention to move the whole business to premises on to one side of Queen Street South and has tabled plans to demolish buildings on part of the site earmarked for the store to provide additional parking for employees.

The company, which employs 140 people, wants to demolish “The Brockholes Building” on Queen Street South between Queensgate and Chapel Street.

The building was constructed between the two world wars and was previously owned by the Brockholes Motor Company, which used it for its body shop and repairs.

The building now houses Broadbents’ drawing office on the first floor and archive on the ground floor.

It is also attached to a mill building dating from the early 1900s, which in turn connects to Broadbents’ main factory by a covered footbridge over Chapel Street.

A report to Kirklees planners by architects Farrar Bamforth Associates said the firm owned three hectares of land and buildings on Queen Street South, sections of which were underused or empty.

Demolishing the Brockholes Building would provide extra parking spaces for Broadbents staff.

An existing car park next to the building provides parking for 43 vehicles. It is proposed to change the layout to provide 57 spaces in the same area – while demolishing the Brockholes Building will create 32 new spaces.

Workers in the Brockholes Building will move across the bridge to the main building.

The report said part of the wall standing up to the ground floor level facing Queen Street South would be retained to prevent the car park being a fully open site.

The report said the structures making up the Brockholes Building were not listed or in a Conservation Area and showed “little of architectural merit” and added: “There are much more impressive buildings in the surrounding mills.”