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St Marys Church Church Road Richmond Hill Leeds LS9 8LA

25/9/00088/MODNon Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 May 2025

Council decision: Non Material Amendment ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of the Nave and Aisles of the church, replaced with a six story extension; the Chancel, Transept areas and Altars will be retained and restored contain 62 apartments. The Presbytery will also be demolished and replaced with a 5 storey apartment block of 113No. apartments (total residential development comprising of 175 units); Other works including new access, proposed ECVP parking, cycle storage and landscaping works - NON MATERIAL AMENDMENT to 20/03519/FU to amend wording of Condition 21 (intrusive site investigations- coal)

Received
16 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Burmantofts & Richmond Hill
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated16 Apr
  3. Consult.16 May
  4. Target11 May
  5. Decided14 May

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at St Marys Church Church Road Richmond Hill Leeds LS9 8LA. Leeds has handled 1,013 applications of this type. This one was decided in 28 days, 3 weeks quicker than Leeds's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 88 applications across Burmantofts & Richmond Hill. We hold 541 applications in total for the LS9 postcode area.

80% of amendment 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
LS9 8LA
Application type
Non Material Amendment
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
62

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 April 2025
Consultation start
25 April 2025
Last date for comments
16 May 2025
Target decision date
11 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Graham Hepworth 8 Wharf Street Leeds LS2 7EQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
25 days

Additional information

Documents
5

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, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, 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 and heritage coasts.

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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