Further consultation launched on Kirkstall Neighbourhood Plan intentions

Kirkstall residents can have their say on proposals to give them greater influence over new development and over the spending of local funds.

Kirkstall Neighbourhood Forum is putting together a draft Kirkstall Neighbourhood Plan, which will help consider ways to tackle some of the major local issues and envisage how residents would like life in Kirkstall and Burley to be in 2040.

The forum has put together a document vwhich sets out suggested policy and land use intentions to include in the final draft plan. After asking for initial feedback last year and making revisions, the forum is now asking for further feedback.

John Liversedge, chair of the Kirkstall Neighbourhood Forum steering group, said: “The purpose of the plan is to ensure that our area develops in a way that is sustainable and that meets the community’s needs and aspirations over the years ahead.  

“We know that not everything in it will be welcomed by everyone who reads it, but we promise to consider carefully all views expressed in this consultation.

“Responses received in the consultation will be used to help turn the ‘policy intentions’ into fully formed planning polices in the Neighbourhood Development Plan itself.

“Subject to the plan being approved in a referendum of all residents in the defined Neighbourhood Area, it will become a statutory part of the Leeds Development Plan. Planners in Leeds will then be obliged to use it when reaching decisions on future planning applications in the Kirkstall area. So it’s really important we hear from anyone who wishes to comment on the document.”

Have your say

The consultation will run until Friday, 21 March 2025.  The online consultation can be found here.

If you’d prefer to reply on paper, a hard copy of the questionnaire can be obtained by emailing info@kirkstallforum.org, or can be picked up from one of the following locations, where paper copies of the Policy Intentions Document can also be viewed at:

• St Matt’s Church, St Matthias’ Street, Burley, Leeds LS4 2DZ

Tuesday mornings, between 10am and 11.30am.

• New Burley Club, Burley Hill Drive, Kirkstall, Leeds LS4 2SZ

Monday to Thursday, 4pm–10pm

Friday, Saturday, Sunday 2pm-10pm

• Kirkstall Valley Development Trust, St Stephens’ Church Hall, 

Norman Street, Leeds LS5 3JN

Monday – Thursday 9am to 3pm

• Hawksworth Community Hub, 6 Broadway, Hawksworth, Leeds LS5 3PR

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am-5pm

Tuesday 10am-5pm

• St Andrew’s Church, Butcher Hill LS16 5HB

Monday and Wednesday, 3.30pm to 5.30pm

Drop-in Sessions

Drop in sessions will be held at three of the venues listed above. At these sessions, local residents and other consultees can meet forum members, ask questions and get information.  

• Kirkstall Valley Development Trust, St Stephens’ Church Hall, Norman Street, Leeds LS5 3JN

Monday 10 March, 11am to 2pm

• St Andrew’s Church, Butcher Hill LS16 5HB

Wednesday 12 March, 4.30pm to 7.30pm

• New Burley Club, Burley Hill Drive, Kirkstall, Leeds LS4 2SZ

Saturday 15 March, 11am to 2pm.

For more information e-mail info@kirkstallforum.org or write to: Kirkstall Neighbourhood Forum, c/o Hawksworth Community Hub, 6 Broadway, Leeds LS5 3PR.

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