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Chevin Park Former High Royds Hospital Menston LS29 6FS

25/06271/FUFull Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 26 January 2026

Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

Variation or removal of condition 17 (grassland and wildflower management plan) to previously approved planning application 16/04643/FU (Conversion of the former administration block and workshops to create 46 residential units and one retail unit and erect 25 new dwellings) for substitution of the approved grassland management plan

Received
4 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Guiseley & Rawdon
  1. Received4 Nov
  2. Validated4 Nov
  3. Consult.12 Dec
  4. Target3 Feb
  5. Decided26 Jan

Decided in 83 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Chevin Park Former High Royds Hospital Menston LS29 6FS. Leeds has handled 10,776 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 5 weeks longer than Leeds's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 188 applications across Guiseley & Rawdon. We hold 2,373 applications in total for the LS29 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 removal or variation of condition 17 cannot be supported given the need to provide a high-quality area of grassland to mitigate for the loss of other grassland following the construction of new residential enabling development on the wider High Royds site. The Revised Grassland Management Plan in support of the condition variation is also lacking in detail and would reduce significantly the bio-diversity value of the grassland compared to the previously approved Grassland Management Plan. The application is therefore contrary to the aims of policy G9 of the Core Strategy, to saved policy GP5 of the Leeds Unitary Development Plan (Review) 2006, and to the policy set out in the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
LS29 6FS
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
46

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 November 2025
Consultation expiry
21 November 2025
Consultation start
5 November 2025
Last date for comments
12 December 2025
Target decision date
3 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Oxford Street Guiseley Leeds LS20 9AX

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 November 2025
Site notice start
14 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered battlefields, 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.

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