2)10th November meeting of Leeds plans panel (west). The store will have a floor space of 9317 m2 and 4907 m2 of net sales floor space. The previous application had 2321 m2 of sales space.
“There will be a significant loss of trees, bushes and shrubs from the site”
“These applications are for conversion of some of the listed buildings for residential developments. A previous application gave consent for demolition of some of the buildings within the grounds of these listed buildings with none of them listed in their own right. This consent includes an additional 5 buildings to be demolished and a further two which are listed (7 in total)”
Leeds Civic Trust said the following:
“Proposed store is large and involves widening of the Rind Road to three lanes encroaching on present ‘grazing’ land (involving removal of trees and bushes). Is an out of town store and inappropriate development in this area”
“So far there have 12 objections from the public details of which will be detailed in a subsequent panel report when a recommendation is to be considered. There have also been 261 standard objection letters and a petition with 140 signatures.
There have been 84 standard letters of support submitted via the applicant agents, details of which will be detailed in a subsequent Panel report when a recommendation is to be considered”
“Following the review of the UDP in 2006, this policy and site allocation remains unchanged. This policy states that the maximum size if a supermarket on the site should not exceed 24990 square feet which was the proposed floor space for the reserve matters application that was approved early on this year.”