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24 Otley Road Headingley Leeds LS6 2AR

26/01139/FUFull Planning ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 23 April 2026

Delegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Variation of condition 3 (opening hours) to previously approved Planning Application 18/03603/FU (Change of use of bank (ground floor) to form a Restaurant/Cafe (class use A3)) for revised operating hours 1100hrs till 0200hrs Monday to Saturday (inclusive) and 1100hrs to 0200hrs on Sundays and Bank Holidays

Received
26 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Headingley & Hyde Park
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.21 Apr
  4. Target23 Apr
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 24 Otley Road Headingley Leeds LS6 2AR. 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 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 opening hours are out of character with the locality and will lead to harmful amenity impacts in the form of excessive noise and disturbance (in the absence of any technical information or mitigation indicating otherwise) from commercial activity during anti-social hours in relation to the residential properties in close proximity to the premises. The proposal would therefore be considered contrary to policy GP5 of the Unitary Development Plan (Review) 2006, Policy P10 of the Core Strategy and guidance contained within the NPPF.
  2. The extended hours of opening are required to facilitate the current use (UKFC) which is a hot food takeaway use (Sui Generis use). This existing use is unauthorised and is not permitted by the original consent (18/03603/FU). Consequently, the proposed change falls outside the scope of a s.73 planning application and would conflict with the operative part of the original consent. A change of use from a Class E unit to a Hot Food Takeaway use is also a material change of use requiring separate planning consent.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

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

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2026
Consultation start
9 March 2026
Last date for comments
21 April 2026
Target decision date
23 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
46 Curzon Road Bradford BD3 9EJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
27 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Headingley
  • Article 4 direction: A4D01
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage 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

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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