Plans for 82 local authority homes at the site of a former Swinnow school will be debated by councillors next week.
The former Hough Side High School site at Hough Top would house 82 affordable dwellings if Leeds City Council’s plans receive the green light.
Members of the south and west plans panel will next Thursday discuss the proposals. No decision on whether to approve the plans will be made at the meeting, but councillors will discuss the progress of the application and will offer guidance on key planning issues associated with the development.
Issues raised by council planning officers include the design and appearance of the plans, the net biodiversity loss and the highways layout.
A planning officer’s report to the meeting states: “Although the proposed development includes a number of positive aspects, in particular the 100% affordable housing provision, there are a several issues concerning officers.
“They include the net biodiversity loss proposed, the design and appearance of the scheme, the representations in relation to the proposed highways layout and the surface water drainage strategy. Panel Members are therefore requested to provide answers to the questions posed in the main body of this report … and to offer any additional comments that they consider appropriate regarding this development proposal.”
The proposal is for a 100% affordable residential development across the site including both houses and apartments. The site would contain 55 houses and 27 apartments, meaning there will be 82 new residential properties proposed.
The proposed two storey houses will be a mixture of two, three and four bedrooms. Each house will have its own parking spaces and private garden space. The proposed three-storey apartment block will contain a mixture of one and two-bedroom units.
The full agenda of next Thursday’s (7 March) meeting can be found here. The meeting starts at Leeds Civic Hall at 1.30pm and members of the public can attend in person. Alternatively the meeting can be watched on the council’s Youtube channel.
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And the illustration looks NOTHING like the massive inappropriate scale of the 3 storey block of flats they have positioned closest to Hough Top where it overlooks exiting houses.
Hough Top already suffers from double parking, using the pavements, along a considerable length of the road, when the football pitches are in use, making it very difficult for traffic pass, particularly emergency vehicles, and for pedestrians to access the pavement. At school Pick up and drop off times parents double park at the junction with Swinnow Lane, again causing major safety issues. Despite this the council want to force all the traffic from 82 new houses onto Hough Top. They are taking very little notice of residents and, as the applicant and decision maker, are in a position to ride roughshod over legitimate issues raised.