Leeds Site Allocations Plan Leeds Local Plan Update of planning permissions for housing, employment and greenspace sites 12 th September 2017 Page 1 of 6
Background 1. This report provides information on the position with planning permissions for both housing, employment and green space sites contained within the SAP. The update of permissions on sites is to 1 April 2017. 2. The Site Allocations Plan (the Plan) contains identified sites, which have existing or recently expired permission for housing (or mixed use, including housing) or were previously allocated for housing in the UDP Review (CD1/1 Policy HG1). These are not proposed new allocations, however they contribute towards the CS requirement for land (CS Policy SP6) to be allocated for housing in the SAP. 3. The Submission Draft Plan includes information on these sites as at 1 st April 2016. In paragraph 4.2 of Housing Background Paper (CD1/34), the Council sets out Clearly, the position with planning permissions is constantly changing as new planning permissions are granted. It is not practicable to continually update a strategic plan to reflect this. However, as soon as practicable after the plan is submitted for examination, the Inspector will be informed of the current position with regards to more recent planning permissions updated to 1st April 2017. 4. The Plan also sets out in Policies EO1 and EG1 the contributions from identified employment sites (for offices and industry) based at 1 st April 2016. In a similar manner to housing, the position is under constant change. 5. Similarly, the Council has already identified in its response to Matter 4 (M4/1) where green spaces have been affected by planning permissions up to 31 st March 2016. There is one further outstanding permission which occurred between 1 st April 2016 and 1 st April 2017. 6. The Council s intent at this stage is not to seek to modify the Plan by updating the baseline as this would require considerable detailed amendments, but rather to provide the Inspectors with up to date contextual information. Housing 7. The Council has undertaken revised calculations that reflect planning permission and construction activity between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017, where this amends figures in the Plan, as an illustrative update to the figures held in Table 1: Housing Distribution by Housing Market Characteristic Area (HMCA) of the Plan (CD1/1). 8. The monitoring of the grant of planning permissions in 2016/17 results in the following updates to site information since the submission draft Plan: changes to existing identified sites in the Plan planning permissions granted on housing allocations in the Plan planning permissions granted on sites designated as safeguarded land in the Plan (arising from decisions taken by the Council, permitted developments and appeals) Page 2 of 6
planning permissions granted on sites that are not identified, allocated or designated in the Plan i.e. large windfall sites 1. 9. Changes on the capacity of sites in the Plan, based on planning permissions between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017 results in a surplus of housing sites in the Submission Draft as at 1 April 2017 at 2,372 units which represents an overall increase in housing supply of 555 units. This is set out in Tables i-iii below and comprises of: permissions on identified sites (Table i) -168 permissions on allocated sites in the Plan (Table ii) -2 permissions on safeguarded land designations in the Plan (Table iii) +725 Table i: Illustrative changes to Identified Sites (HG1) HMCA Changes to Identified sites from recent planning permissions Aireborough 0 City Centre 9 East Leeds -215* Inner Area 140 North Leeds -95 Outer NE 0 Outer NW 15 Outer South 9 Outer SE -2 Outer SW 16 Outer West -45 Total -168 Table ii: Update on permissions on allocated housing sites (HG2) HMCA SAP ref Change to Site Capacity Submission Update Change City Centre HG2-189 85 79-6 Inner Area HG2-109 48 87 39 Inner Area HG2-110 38 33-5 North Leeds HG2-30 14 6-8 North Leeds HG2-40 20 9-11 1 EB8/4 (Leeds SHLAA) sets out that the size threshold for inclusion in the SHLAA is 0.4ha except for sites that have planning permission, which have a threshold of 0.2ha and sites in the city centre which have no size threshold. All sites below this threshold are classed as small windfall and contribute towards CS windfall estimates of 500 homes per year. Sites which are above this threshold and arise as new sites are termed large windfall. Page 3 of 6
HMCA SAP ref Change to Site Capacity Submission Update Change Outer North East HG2-20 86 86 0 Outer North East HG2-19 165 165 0 Outer North West HG2-17 376 380 4 Outer South West HG2-232 44 41-3 Outer South West HG2-164 26 37 11 Outer South West HG2-143 42 42 0 Outer South West HG2-231 20 15-5 Outer West HG2-83 18 14-4 Outer West HG2-61 15 14-1 Outer West HG2-73 283 270-13 Overall change/loss of capacity from allocated sites -2 Table iii: Update on permissions on Safeguarded Land (HG3) HMCA SAP ref Submission indicative capacity Planning permission capacity Outer North East HG3-8 100 150 Outer North East HG3-10 103 104 Outer South East HG3-19 166 156 Outer South West HG3-24 218 315 Total capacity from planning permissions 10. There are also 28 additional sites that were not in the Submission Draft Plan that now have planning permission which can be classed as large windfall as at 1 April 2017. The 28 sites deliver additional capacity of 925 units as shown in Table vi below. Table vi: New sites with planning permission HMCA Address Capacity City Centre Protection House, 16-17 East Parade 7 City Centre Roberts Wharf, Neptune Street, Leeds, LS9 8DX 14 City Centre 67-83 Cookridge Street, Leeds, LS2 3AW 96 City Centre Land At David Street, Holbeck 72 City Centre Trafalgar House, 29 Park Place, Leeds, LS1 2SP 40 City Centre 2 The Embankment, Sovereign Street 41 City Centre 49 St Pauls Street 10 City Centre Unit 111 Regent Street, Sheepscar 6 City Centre 23 Clarendon Road, Woodhouse 16 Page 4 of 6 725
HMCA Address Capacity East Leeds Former Stanks Fire Station, Sherburn Road 5 East Leeds Former Site Of The Whinmoor Pub, Stanks Lane 22 Inner Area Conservative Club, Long Close Lane, Richmond Hill 14 Inner Area Land Adjacent To 11 Hall Road, Armley, Leeds, LS12 1UZ 8 Inner Area Baileys House Adult Residential Centre, Baileys Hill 10 Inner Area 2 Low Grange View, Belle Isle, Leeds, LS10 3DT 10 Inner Area Land Off Boggart Hill Road, Seacroft 10 Inner Area Blenheim Court, Woodhouse 52 North Leeds Elmete Wood School, Elmete Lane, Roundhay 9 North Leeds Land At Devonshire Lodge, Devonshire Avenue 41 Outer North East Norton House, Deighton House, Wetherby 7 Outer North West 1 Union Court, Westgate, Otley 32 Outer South West Quarry Court, High Street, Morley 9 Outer South West Former Site of Barfield House, Britannia Road, Morley 8 Outer South West Valley Mills, Whitehall Road, Drighlington 44 Outer West Bramley Liberal Club, 14 Hough Lane, Bramley 7 Outer West Green Flag House And Park House, Cote Lane, Farsley 139 Outer West Land Adjacent To 320 Pudsey Road, Bramley 9 Outer West Land Off Carlise Road, Pudsey 8 TOTAL 925 11. The result of the calculations based on both changes arising from planning permissions and construction activity on existing Identified sites and the addition of new sites from permission increases the overall surplus of potential delivery against CS Policy SP6 from 1,817 to 3,297 units. Employment 12. The Council has also undertaken revised calculations to reflect planning permissions granted and construction activity between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017 as an illustrative update to the figures held in Policy EO1 Identified Sites for Office Use and EG1 Identified Sites for General Employment. 13. There are minor changes to the data contained in the Submission Draft in the period 1st April 2016 to 31st March 2017 with activity on existing sites meaning the capacities remain the same. Sites EG2-26 and EG2-27 now have planning permission. 14. In total, there are two new sites that were not identified in the Plan that now have planning approval with a total increase of 4,489 sqm of office floorspace and 0.6ha of general employment land. Page 5 of 6
Greenspace 15. Greenspace deletions where planning permission for an alternative use has been granted this past monitoring year (1 st April 2016 to 31 st March 2017) are shown below. The figures in the Plan have not been updated accordingly. Green space ref number G1856 Green Space site Bramley Liberal Club Planning Application ref 16/00937/FU Proposal Construction of one pair of semi-detached dwellings, four townhouses and one detached dwelling Notes Recent permission (09/01/2017). Conclusions 16. Based on planning permissions granted between 1 April 2016 and 31 st March 2017: the total amount of housing on identified and allocated sites in the Plan would increase by 555 units from 67,817 to 68,372 units the total amount of housing on identified, allocated and large windfall would increase the total units by 1,480 sites from 67,817 to 69,297 units the total amount of general employment land would increase by 0.6ha from 493.12ha to 493.62ha the total amount of office floorspace would increase by 4,489 sqm from 1,067,583 to 1,072,072 sqm there are minimal further losses of greenspace as a result of new development 17. The Council invites a discussion with the Inspectors as to whether to update the Submission Plan baseline. Page 6 of 6