{"id":298615,"date":"2025-07-28T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298615\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:52:11","slug":"civic-watchdogs-concerns-over-burley-charity-shop-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298615\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic watchdog&#8217;s concerns over Burley charity shop plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A civic watchdog has objected to plans to transform a former charity shop in Burley into shops and flats.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/burley-flats-plan-for-former-charity-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously reported<\/a>, 12 retail units and nine apartments could be built at the derelict site on Cardigan Road.<\/p>\n<p>The building was formerly\u00a0occupied by Poverty Aid, which sold discounted second hand furniture.<\/p>\n<p>City View Holdings is seeking planning permission from Leeds City Council to convert the site.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But members of Leeds Civic Trust\u2019s planning committee have registered their concerns over the proposals<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on social media, they said: \u201cThe planning committee object to this application because: there are unnecessary blind walls to the side and back of the site; the application prioritises car parking over landscaping &amp; greenery and there is a lack of dual aspect balconies for the residential part of the plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plans also include the creation of new parking spaces and a cycle store, a new bin store and alterations to existing access.<\/p>\n<p>A -planning statement submitted with the application said: \u201cThe site has good access to local facilities and amenities including shops, medical centre, pharmacy, primary school and parks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plans<a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=SXMMC7JBGDW00&amp;activeTab=summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0can be viewed in full here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-18.31.46-638x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164818\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A civic watchdog has objected to plans to transform a former charity shop in Burley into shops and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-298615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114931194038049240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}