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Unit 2A & 2B St George House 40 Great George Street Leeds LS1 3DL

24/05213/FUFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 18 December 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from retail use (Class E) to library use ancillary to the existing use of the building as an accountancy training space (Class F1)

Received
31 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Little London & Woodhouse
  1. Received31 Oct
  2. Validated31 Oct
  3. Consult.13 Dec
  4. Target26 Dec
  5. Decided18 Dec

Decided in 48 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Unit 2A & 2B St George House 40 Great George Street Leeds LS1 3DL. Leeds has handled 10,776 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 239 applications across Little London & Woodhouse. We hold 377 applications in total for the LS1 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
LS1 3DL
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 October 2024
Consultation expiry
22 November 2024
Consultation start
1 November 2024
Last date for comments
13 December 2024
Target decision date
26 December 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Des Dunlop Trym Lodge 1 Henbury Road Westbury On Trym Bristol BS9 3HQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 November 2024
Site notice start
5 November 2024

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Leeds City Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: Victoria HotelOn or next to this site · +3 more
  • Article 4 direction: A4D01
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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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