Tag: Planning permission

Panel to decide on Aspiring Communities scheme

The controversial plans for a sports hall with community and prayer rooms on the former Ice Pak site on Barkly Road in Beeston will go before a Council Plans Panel next week with a recommendation to refuse planning permission. The plans brought forward by local charity Aspiring Communities have raised

Asda needs its Hard Hat at Beeston Forum

Representative of Asda seemed under-prepared when they addressed the Beeston Community Forum on Thursday (5 February 2015). Representatives from Asda and their PR company, the appropriately named Hard Hat, had come to inform residents that work was underway on the new store on Old Lane which is due to open

Tesco puts Old Lane site up for sale – Asda silent on its plans

Supermarket giant Tesco has put up for sale land originally intended for a new supermarket in Beeston. Tesco was locked in a lengthy and unsuccessful battle with Asda to build a new supermarket in the Old Lane area last year, with city planners opting for Asda’s plans to build a new

Prostitutes’ drop-in centre for Holbeck

A new planning application has been submitted to change an unused residential caretakers building at 1 Sydenham Street, off Domestic Street in Holbeck, to office use and counselling and education/training support services use. At first site this sounds pretty innocuous until you start to dig a bit deeper. The applicant

Extension of White Rose Shopping Centre – Benefit for South Leeds?

  On Thursday (12 December 2013) the Council’s City Plans Panel will be considering one of the most important planning applications* which affects south Leeds for some years. Land Securities – the owners of the White Rose Shopping Centre (WRSC) -want to expand it by providing new and enlarged shops