OUTLINE plans to build a five-storey block of 21 apartments and two penthouses in Barrowford look likely to be refused next week by West Craven Committee.

The current site of HP Inman and Co Ltd, in Lower Clough Street, consists of single-storey engineering workshops, servicing and parking land, as well as disused land along the waste and river edges of the site.

The application proposes a five-storey block 41 metres long, 12 metres high at the main block, and 15 metres high to the top of the penthouses.

It would include 14 parking spaces, all with direct access off Lower Clough Street. It is thought that this could lead to cars reversing directly on, or off, the street and lead to a potential hazard.

It also proposes 19 double parking spaces under the apartment block and in the covered parking area at the front of the building. A report to the committee by planning case officer Barry Maher said: "I consider the proposed tall, massive flat fronted block to be inappropriate and out of keeping with the area no matter what the details of external appearance.

"Also the details of parking are, in respect of the frontage parking, unsatisfactory."

Councillors have been recommended to refuse the proposal on these grounds.