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4 The Crescent Woodhouse Leeds LS6 2NW

25/05442/FUFull Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 17 November 2025

Delegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Change of use of retail unit (Class E) to hot food takeaway with addition of external extraction flue to rear

Received
22 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Headingley & Hyde Park
  1. Received22 Sep
  2. Validated22 Sep
  3. Consult.11 Nov
  4. Target17 Nov
  5. Decided17 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 4 The Crescent Woodhouse Leeds LS6 2NW. 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, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 228 applications across Headingley & Hyde Park. We hold 807 applications in total for the LS6 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 considers that the proposed replacement shopfront and extract ventilation system and flue would fail to respect the character and setting of the existing building, to the detriment of visual amenity within the Headingley Hill, Hyde Park and Woodhouse Moor Conservation Area, and also result in a detrimental and unacceptable impact on the character and setting of the adjacent former Post Office and Hyde Park Delivery Office, which is a Grade II Listed Building. As such, the proposal fails to comply with the recommendations of Policies P10 and P11 of the Leeds Core Strategy, Saved Policies GP5, BD6, BC7 and N19 of the Revised Unitary Development Plan (UDPR), advice set out in Paragraph 195 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), and the requirements of Paragraphs (1) and (2) of Section 72 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990.)
  2. The Local Planning Authority considers that the proposed use of the premises as a Hot Food Takeaway would result in an unacceptable impact upon the residential amenity of Merrion House 110 Merrion Centre Leeds LS2 8BB Town and Country Planning Act 1990 adjacent occupants with regard to increased noise, odours, litter, comings-and-goings and associated activities resulting from deliveries, collections or the congregating of customers during anti-social hours, with insufficient supporting information having been provided to potentially mitigate such impacts. As such, the proposal fails to comply with Policy P10 of the Leeds Core Strategy and Saved UDPR Policy GP5 and cannot therefore be supported.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
LS6 2NW
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 September 2025
Consultation expiry
10 October 2025
Consultation start
28 October 2025
Last date for comments
11 November 2025
Target decision date
17 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Cottage Ellis Yard Mill Road Batley Carr Dewbury WF13 2HW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
10 October 2025
Site notice start
1 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    22 Sep

    Change of use of retail unit (Class E) to hot food takeaway with addition of external extraction flue to rear

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    22 Sep

    One internally illuminated fascia sign and one internally illuminated projecting sign to front.

    RefusedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside25/05523/ADV

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