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Skelton Grange Landfill Site Newsam Green Leeds LS15 9AD

16/00073/FUFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 22 July 2016

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Variation of condition 3 of application 12/03421/FU to extend time period for landfill operations until 17th April 2018 and restoration until 17th April 2023 The application is accompanied by an addendum to the original environmental statement

Received
19 January 2016
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Garforth & Swillington
  1. Received19 Jan
  2. Validated19 Jan
  3. Consult.28 Mar
  4. Target19 Apr
  5. Decided22 Jul

Decided in 185 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Skelton Grange Landfill Site Newsam Green Leeds LS15 9AD. Leeds has handled 10,776 applications of this type. This one was decided in 185 days, 19 weeks longer than Leeds's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 117 applications across Garforth & Swillington. We hold 1,087 applications in total for the LS15 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
LS15 9AD
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 January 2016
Last date for comments
28 March 2016
Target decision date
19 April 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
43

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Leeds
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2016
    19 Jan

    Variation of condition 3 of application 12/03421/FU

    This applicationApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)16/00073/FU
  2. 2012
    24 Aug

    Variation of condition 3 of application 32/267/98/MIN

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)Part of12/03421/FU
  3. 2012
    24 Aug

    Variation of condition 3 of application 32/454/03/MIN

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)Filed alongside12/03422/FU

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2009
    19 Nov

    Variation of condition 3 of application 32/454/03/MIN

    WithdrawnVariation of conditions (s73)09/04845/FU

Source: Leeds

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