{"id":107451,"date":"2026-08-20T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/107451\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:50:18","slug":"holiday-let-flats-proposed-at-pudsey-hsbc-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/107451\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday let flats proposed at Pudsey HSBC building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">By John Baron<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the former HSBC bank building in Pudsey town centre could be transformed into three holiday flats, if the latest plans for the site are approved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applicant Mohammed Abbas of<a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/15912271\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> REF79 Holdings<\/a>, want to change the rear part of the ground floor into three self-contained short-term holiday let studio apartments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fresh proposals come a fortnight after the Harseen Abdul Karim, of real estate company Golden Oak Estate, <a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/pudsey-new-shops-plan-at-former-hsbc-building\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">submitted plans to the council<\/a> to turn the front part of the ground floor into two shops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A planning statement submitted with he application says the development would be \u201ca high-quality conversion that brings a vacant unit back into active use, provides much-needed short-term accommodation in a sustainable location, and respects the character of the existing building and surrounding area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There would be two parking spaces created towards the rear of the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upper floors of the Church Lane building already contain residential flats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June\u00a0WLD\u00a0reported how the planned conversion of the building\u2019s downstairs into five flats were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/council-blocks-former-pudsey-hsbc-homes-plan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blocked by the city council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ground floor has been empty since HSBC closed its doors in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-18.31.46-638x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164818\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By John Baron Part of the former HSBC bank building in Pudsey town centre could be transformed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20667],"tags":[28955,9881,9751],"class_list":["post-107451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hsbc","tag-church-lane","tag-hsbc","tag-pudsey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117127926553929702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}