Supermarket chain Tesco has been told to provide more detailed information on drainage at the site of its proposed new Ilkley store.

Bradford Council confirmed that the retail giant did not submit enough detail to the council on how it was dealing with drainage on the former Spooner Industries site, off Mayfield Road and Railway Road.

The company, which won a planning appeal a year ago – overturning the council’s decision to reject the development – must now re-submit details of plans to deal with drainage on site, a council spokesman revealed.

Tesco is expected to comply with a range of conditions if it is to go ahead with the bigger new store, replacing its nearby Springs Lane supermarket.

Among these are conditions governing design and materials, road improvements, open space and drainage.

The company initially hoped to have the supermarket built by the end of this year.

Both the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water objected to the discharge of conditions relating to drainage, it has emerged.

The council spokesman said the submissions to comply with drainage conditions have to be scrutinised by external bodies such as the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water.

In a letter to the council, Yorkshire Water said drainage details submitted were “not acceptable”.

The company said Tesco’s drainage plans appeared to show foul water going into private sewers - and surface water going into a public surface water sewer that did not appear on statutory sewer maps.

Some work has taken place on site, but construction has not begun.

The delay in building the supermarket has also triggered fresh concern about the future of the Springs Lane land.

Tesco gained outline approval from the planning inspector last September to build a care home and business units.

Ward councillor, Mike Gibbons (Con, Ilkley) says support is growing for the creation of a car park on the land.

He said: “I’m concerned with the ongoing question of what’s going to happen to the old site. More and more, I’m hearing people in the town saying the most blatantly-obvious thing to do with it is to create a car park.”

Ilkley Parish Council plans committee chairman, Andrew McKie, said the town’s needs could have changed by the time the Springs Lane land is developed.