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Units 8B 35 Wakefield Road Swillington Leeds LS26 8DT

15/01709/FUFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 19 June 2015

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to MOT testing station (B2)

Submitted
24 April 2015
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Garforth & Swillington
  1. Received24 Apr
  2. Validated24 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target19 Jun
  5. Decided19 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Units 8B 35 Wakefield Road Swillington Leeds LS26 8DT. Leeds has handled 10,776 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Leeds's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across Garforth & Swillington. We hold 1,811 applications in total for the LS26 postcode area.

81% of full applications at Leeds City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LS26 8DT
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Swillington Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 April 2015
Target decision date
19 June 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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