{"id":744148,"date":"2026-02-05T14:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/744148\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:14:12","slug":"wortley-apartment-block-refused-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/744148\/","title":{"rendered":"Wortley apartment block refused permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By John Baron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Planners have refused permission to demolish a detached house in Wortley and replace it with a block of nine apartments.<\/p>\n<p>London-based developer The Land Specialist Projects Ltd had applied to demolish the house on Blue Hill Lane and replace it with a two and a half storey apartment building with a mix of one and two-bedroom apartments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposed development would have included nine car parking and ten cycle spaces. <\/p>\n<p>But the planning application received 24 objections, raising concerns about its size, overlooking existing houses, a lack of parking, extra traffic and a loss of open green space and trees.<\/p>\n<p>A design statement submitted with the application had argued: \u201cThe proposal delivers a balanced and sustainable form of development that aligns with all relevant national and local planning policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt achieves social, economic and environmental gains without giving rise to any adverse\u00a0impacts that would significantly or demonstrably outweigh the benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A council planning officer this week refused the application, saying it contravened \u2018numerous and significant\u2019 local and national planning policies.<\/p>\n<p>The planner\u2019s report concluded: \u201cWhilst the proposal will bring with it benefits, including the delivery of new housing to meet wider demand, these benefits are outweighed by the harm identified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plans and reports can be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=T4ZO1GJBFG500&amp;activeTab=summary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">viewed in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-03-at-13.23.42.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191083\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By John Baron Planners have refused permission to demolish a detached house in Wortley and replace it with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[220024,748,393,4884,1860,46943,16,15,207326],"class_list":["post-744148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-blue-hill-lane","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-planning-application","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wortley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116018443980945642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744148","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=744148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}