By John Baron
Plans to repurpose part of the former HSBC bank building in Pudsey town centre into a food take-away outlet have been refused by Leeds City Council planners.
Ali Salem Naif Al-Shamary’s plan would have created two full time jobs at the former bank chamber, which has been empty since it closed its doors in October 2020.
The takeaway would have opened 11am to 11pm weekdays, and until midnight on weekends and bank holidays.
A design statement submitted with the application described the proposal as a ‘sensitive, policy-compliant redevelopment that reactivates the building without compromising its heritage or the Conservation Area’.
But the plan received 88 objections and one supportive comment.
Council planners refused the plan due to its impact on neighbouring residential flats, visual amenity and parking concerns.
A planning officer’s report concludes: “The Local Planning Authority considers that the proposal to have a new takeaway use adjacent to existing residential flats, installation of a low-level extraction flue and increased parking demand in close proximity to residential windows would introduce a new source of fumes, odour and noise which would adversely impact on neighbouring residential amenity.”
The plans can be viewed in full here.
A small hot food takeaway kiosk next to the former HSBC bank building were refused planning permission in May. Plans to turn the former bank chamber into a retail unit and flats were approved by council planners last August.
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