Bulmer & Lumb in Buttershaw. Pic: Google Street View A BRADFORD firm has had its application to expand its decades old site in the south of the city approved by Bradford Council. Bulmer & Lumb, based in Royds Hall Lane, Buttershaw, had applied to construct four new industrial units in the north-east corner of its site. The textiles manufacturer has been based at the site since 1960, and will also refurbish its current, typically 1950s, main building in the first phase of a five part modernisation plan. In the development, the four new industrial units will have uniform appearance with aluminium and cladding exterior, and will all be two story buildings with warehouse and office space, and are set to be let out to form a “wider business community” on the site.
A BRADFORD textile firm has revealed plans to once again make its headquarters a major employment site in the city. Bulmer and Lumb, which specialises in dying fabrics, once employed 2,000 people at its site on Royds Hall Lane, Buttershaw. Due to changes in technology over the years, there are currently just a fifth of that amount now working on the site. The company has submitted a planning application to Bradford Council that will increase the number of people employed on the site significantly. The application would see an existing industrial building on the site refurbished, while four new light industrial units are built on a vacant area to the North East of the site.