A manufacturing building in Silsden will not be able to open 24 hours a day – planners have decided.

In April an application to vary the current planning conditions on Habegger House on Keighley Road was submitted to Bradford Council.

The application, by Yorkshire Capital Group Ltd, sought to change the permitted hours of operation at the building – which shares an entrance with the town’s Aldi branch.

Currently the facility is only legally allowed to operate from 7.30am to 6pm on Monday to Friday and 8am to 5pm on Saturday. No operations can take place on the site on Sundays.

Those conditions date back to a planning application in 2003, when a change of use of the building from a warehouse to mixed manufacturing and warehousing use was approved. At the time, planners had been concerned about the impact on neighbours of manufacturing noises.

The new application said the 24 hour operations will only be in relation to internal works in a section of the building, not deliveries or other external movements.

It added: “The existing condition applies a blanket restriction on all activities at the site, regardless of their potential impact.”

It said the change would allow “flexibility for internal operations on a 24-hour basis.”

Part of the site is currently home to Silsden Self Storage Ltd.

There had been seven objections to the plans and four letters of support.

Silsden Town Council had also objected, saying Silsden had “a far bigger population than in 2003 when the condition was placed.”

They added: “This council needs to understand what operations would actually be in order to fully assess its impact on the environs.”

Refusing the application, planning officers said: “This proposal to increase the operating hours of the site significantly will result in a 24 – hour manufacturing operation running without any limitations within close proximity to a residential area and directly abutting the curtilage of 16 domestic properties.

“There is insufficient information provided with the application with regard to the impact the proposal may have on neighbouring residents. It is not clear what steps or measures the development will use to mitigate noise from the site, whether there will be any noise control or restriction in shift patterns regarding overnight shift changes nor restrictions regarding opening of the external shutters of the building.

“No meaningful assessment has been carried out in relation to noise emanating from the site.

“The intensification of use and the potential significant increase in noise and disturbance during unsocial hours would potentially significantly impact the residential amenity of the surrounding neighbours.”