MORE apartments could spring up just outside the city centre in an area "awash with flats" as one of York's employers moves to Leeds.

The transfer of the Dairy Farmers Of Britain's York Depot on Saturday will create a new site for redevelopment on Hull Road, triggering calls for it to be preserved for employment use.

But an outline planning application for a residential development has been lodged with City of York Council for the site at 6-18 Hull Road.

A council spokeswoman said no details were available as the application had contained insufficient information to be processed.

Phil Gibson, Dairy Farmers of Britain spokesman, said: "It is a leasehold site so we have given notice to the landlord - the Co-Operative Group - that it will be returned to them. From that point it is up to them."

The Press revealed last week how the dairy was to close.

Fifteen jobs will be lost in York - eight employees are transferring to Leeds while the others are taking voluntary redundancy.

The customers and the 12 independent milk buyers who purchase milk through Dairy Farmers Of Britain are not expected to be affected.

However, a doorstep milk round taking in Elvington, Huntington and Clifton in York is being cut because it is unviable.

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