By John Baron
Plans to place 42 storage container units on land off the Ring Road will be considered by councillors.
Members of the Plans Panel West will decide next Thursday (11 June) whether approve the proposed temporary siting of 42 double stacked storage container units with associated parking on disused land to the east of Spring Valley Estate and Ring Road Bramley.
A council report says permission is sought for only three years as the land is earmarked for future housing development. It recommends the plans are approved in principle, with the final decision delegated to the chief planning officer subject to a raft of planning conditions.
“The containers would be positioned within the site in an ordered layout, forming rows with a maximum height equivalent to two standard shipping containers stacked vertically,” the report states.
The containers would be used solely for storage purposes. Access to individual units would be limited to authorised users, and councillors will be told that the level of activity is anticipated to be modest in nature.
A planning officer’s report to be considered by councillors concludes the proposal does not present ‘unacceptable harm’.
It adds: “Significant weight has been given to the three-year limited time consent agreed with the applicant.”
- The full agenda and papers from the Leeds Civic Hall meeting can be found here.
Following the council’s AGM last month, the number of plans panels have been reduced from three to two and the south and west plans panel – which considered major planning applications in West Leeds – no longer exists and has become the Plans Panel West. It sits alongside the Plans Panel East.
- WLD has been tracking local and national government budget cuts through its Cutswatch series here.
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