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Unit 3 Camart House 15 - 19 Cowper Road Harehills Leeds LS9 7AP

25/01298/FUFull Planning ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 13 October 2025

Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

Change of use of the first floor premises from a gym to a mixed use restaurant with areas for private functions and indoor play area for children; demolition of outbuilding to rear; external alterations including addition of bin storage and parking spaces and addition of extract plant, flue and ducting

Received
3 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Gipton & Harehills
  1. Received3 Mar
  2. Validated3 Mar
  3. Consult.22 Sep
  4. Target28 Apr
  5. Decided13 Oct

Decided in 224 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Unit 3 Camart House 15 - 19 Cowper Road Harehills Leeds LS9 7AP. Leeds has handled 10,776 applications of this type. This one was decided in 224 days, 25 weeks longer than Leeds's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 101 applications across Gipton & Harehills. We hold 541 applications in total for the LS9 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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Why it was refused

  1. The Local Planning Authority consider that the proposed change of use to a restaurant, private function room and children's play area has the potential to generate harmful levels of noise and disturbance in close proximity to residential properties located to the north of the building, resulting in an adverse impact in the living conditions of these residents. Whilst some information relating to these concerns has been provided by way of a Noise Assessment, this assessment is considered to contain a number of inaccuracies as well as failing to fully identify all potential impacts to residents. As such, the applicant has failed to demonstrate, through the submission of an appropriate noise report that adverse amenity impacts would not be experienced and including compliance with the Councils planning noise & vibration criteria. Merrion House 110 Merrion Centre Leeds LS2 8BB Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Furthermore, the submitted information fails to fully take into account the different routes of noise transmission including direct, flanking and through doors/windows (including if/when they are open), ducting or other weak building elements. these measures also fail to account for any outside congregation of customers due to smoking, waiting for taxis or other possibilities. Without this information it is not possible to conclude that the Local Planning Authority's concerns can be fully mitigated and the proposal is therefore contrary to saved policy GP5 of the Unitary Development Plan Review (2006), policy P10 of the Core Strategy (as amended 2019), and advice within sections 12 and 15 the National Planning Policy Framework and Planning Practice Guidance on noise.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
LS9 7AP
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 March 2025
Consultation start
8 September 2025
Last date for comments
22 September 2025
Target decision date
28 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Naveed Amini 102 Smalewell Road Pudsey LS28 8HU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 April 2025

Appeal history

6003570
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 7 May 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: refused

Additional information

Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: A4D01
  • Brownfield land register: Compton Arms, Compton Road, Burmantofts, Leeds, LS9 7bRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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 and heritage coasts.

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