#Bank Street

A GOVERNMENT inspector has agreed that a new gambling business in an area already dominated by similar businesses would cause "unacceptable harm" to the city centre. Merkur Slots had planned to open an adult gaming centre in the former Leeds Building Society unit on Bank Street, in the heart of the city centre. But last summer, Bradford Council…

A GAMBLING chain is appealing Bradford Council's decision to block its plans to open a city centre branch due to the "harm" it could bring. The Council's public health department made a rare intervention to push for an application to turn a former building society on Bank Street into a new gaming centre to be refused this Summer. They claimed the…

The Bradford Council refused Merkur Slots' plans to build a new gaming hall amid gambling harm concerns. The city officials believe that the location chosen by the operator would have put vulnerable people at high risk. Merkur Slots' intention was to set up a gaming center on Bank Street in Bradford. The gambling company planned to turn the former…

CONCERN over the health impact on some of the district's most vulnerable residents has led to a plan for a new gambling centre in Bradford being refused. Merkur Slots recently revealed plans to open a gaming centre on Bank Street, in the former Leeds Building Society unit. There are already five gambling businesses within 50 metres of this…

PLANS for a new gambling business in Bradford city centre have led to a councillor raising concerns over the amount of betting shops in the area. Merkur Slots has recently applied for a licence to turn the former Leeds Building Society building on Bank Street into a "bingo premises" that would open from 9am to midnight. If approved, it would become…