By John Baron
Plans to demolish the former Lloyds Data Centre at Dawsons Corner and build a mix of 133 apartments and houses have been submitted to Leeds City Council.
Applicants Breck Homes Limited and Bank of Scotland are proposing a mix of 58 one and two-bed apartments and 35 two, three and four-bed houses at the site off Cote Lane, Farsley.
The three apartment buildings will be three storeys high.
The move is part of a wider plan from Lloyds to increase the supply of affordable homes in the UK.
A planning statement submitted with the application said that 32% of properties will be family sized.
It concludes: “The development accords with all relevant local and national planning policy, delivers significant public benefits and represents sustainable development in social, economic and environmental terms.
“On this basis, the planning application should be granted without delay.”
Councillors’ reaction
Councillors Craig Timmins and Peter Carlill (Lab, Calverley & Farsley) said: “We welcome this proposed development in principle, as it would bring a large number of affordable social rent housing and shared ownership housing to our area that is very much needed, and that it is being proposed on previously developed Brownfield Land.
“We have engaged at every step with the developer, so that we get the most out of it for our community, seeking improvements in terms of greenspace, children’s play provision and the streetscape.
“There will of course be further detail to discuss about the layout and scale of the development as we go through the planning system.
“We are encouraged that the developer consulted with local residents about their proposal early on, have made changes following our requests, and they have agreed with our suggestion to hold a further in person public consultation with the ability for residents to also email their views.
“This development sits in addition to the proposed Richmond House scheme, and we do therefore share residents’ concerns around local infrastructure, in particular congestion locally and access to important services such as doctors and dentists.
“As part of the recent local plan consultation, we asked for a masterplan to be put together for the entire Dawsons Corner area, to ensure that all nearby proposed developments can be considered in a round, and local infrastructure can be taken into account as part of this.
“We encourage residents to comment on the planning application, and we would ask as many as possible give feedback on the promised public consultation from the developer.”
Councillor Andrew Carter (Cons, Calverley & Farsley) raised a number of concerns, saying the development would ‘pile ever more pressures on our local community’.
He said: “Obviously there is cause for all sorts of concerns, not least serious traffic issues, housing density, pressure on local services, piling ever more pressures on our local community.
“We cannot accept anything just dumped on us.”
Lloyds left its Pudsey office in 2020.
- The plans can be viewed and commented upon here.
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