Decision due on Terry's site plan

The new development could create about 2,000 jobs

Plans to create up to 2,000 jobs with the redevelopment of the Terry's chocolate factory site in York are expected to be given the go-ahead.

Plans have been submitted to build businesses, hotels, a health centre and new homes on the Bishopthorpe Road site, which closed in 2005.

Council officers have recommended that the plan is approved at a meeting of York's planning committee on Thursday.

Developers Grantside will have to agree to a list of conditions.

A report to the committee has been released which says the firm would have to take "all reasonable measures" to minimise dust emissions and noise.

Other conditions include not having bonfires on the site and disposing of asbestos correctly.

The report said the proposal "would not cause undue harm" to highway and pedestrian safety, adjacent listed buildings, air quality, flooding and drainage and archaeological deposits at the site.

Kraft Foods closed the factory in September 2005, bringing to an end more than a century of chocolate making in York by Terry's, which began production in 1886.