38 Commercial Road Kirkstall Leeds LS5 3AQ
Refused on 9 August 2018
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use of shop to a house and four storey extension to rear to form four apartments
- Received
- 25 May 2018
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Leeds City Council
- Ward
- Kirkstall
- ReceivedReceived25 May
- ValidatedValidated25 May
- Consult.Consultation29 Jun
- TargetTarget Date20 Jul
- DecidedDecided9 Aug
Decided in 76 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 38 Commercial Road Kirkstall Leeds LS5 3AQ. Leeds has handled 10,776 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 4 weeks longer than Leeds's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Kirkstall. We hold 295 applications in total for the LS5 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
- LS5 3AQ
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 May 2018
- Consultation start
- 4 June 2018
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 June 2018
- Last date for comments
- 29 June 2018
- Target decision date
- 20 July 2018
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Upper Quickstavers Wine Tavern Lane Sowerby Bridge HX6 1PB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 20
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
- Article 4 direction: A4D01
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202412 Nov
Conversion and extension to rear of former shop and store to create four one bedroom apartments and three…
ApprovedFull Planning Application24/06544/FU - 202317 Apr
Conversion and extension of former shop and store to create three one bedroom apartments and three bedroom…
ApprovedFull Planning Application23/02055/FU - 20187 Dec
Conversion and extension of former shop and store to 4 apartments
PendingFull Planning Application18/07324/FU - 201618 Mar
Rear extension to form four flats
RefusedFull Planning Application16/01586/FU
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- 38 Commercial Road Kirkstall Leeds LS5 3AQ23/02055/FU · FullApproved0.0 mi
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