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1 Cowper Terrace And 2 Cowper Mount Harehills Leeds LS9 7BA

26/00777/FUFull Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 25 June 2026

Delegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of single dwelling to two dwellings

Received
5 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Gipton & Harehills
  1. Received5 May
  2. Validated5 May
  3. Consult.8 Jun
  4. Target30 Jun
  5. Decided25 Jun

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 1 Cowper Terrace And 2 Cowper Mount Harehills Leeds LS9 7BA. Leeds has handled 10,776 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days. 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 542 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 the proposed conversion into two dwelling houses would fail to offer future residents an adequate standard of living. Both of the proposed dwellings fail to meet the national minimum internal space standards as adopted by the Council, and the internal arrangement will lead to inadequate outlook and overlooking from the public highway. Thus, the quality of accommodation proposed is sub-standard and harmful to the living conditions of future occupants. As such, the development is contrary policies P10 and H9 of the Core Strategy Review (2019), and saved Unitary Development Plan Review (2006) policies GP5 and BD5.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

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

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 May 2026
Consultation start
5 May 2026
Last date for comments
8 June 2026
Target decision date
30 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Architect profile
RIYAT ASSOCIATES LIMITED
Agent address
Benson House 14 Benson Street Leeds LS7 1BL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
15 May 2026

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: A4D01
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, 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.

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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