{"id":769458,"date":"2026-02-17T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/769458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:23:20","slug":"stainingley-green-light-for-flats-above-restaurants-and-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/769458\/","title":{"rendered":"Stainingley: Green light for flats above restaurants and takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four flats will be created above restaurants\/hot food takeaways at 116 Stanningley Town Street \u2013 despite concerns from a Bramley &amp; Stanningley councillor.<\/p>\n<p>Applicant Abid Hussain has received planning permission to replace existing first floor storage areas with the flats, along with a new ground floor entrance to front and alterations to shopfronts.<\/p>\n<p>A similar scheme was <a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/stanningley-flats-plans-rejected-amid-highways-safety-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected on highways grounds last May<\/a>, and the latest scheme had received objections from Councillor Kevin Ritchie (Lab, Bramley &amp; Stanningley) mainly on the grounds of a lack of adequate parking.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"882\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-02-19-at-10.37.08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172690\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9455919502409408;width:306px;height:auto\"  \/>Councillor Kevin Ritchie (Lab, Bramley &amp; Stanningley ward)<\/p>\n<p>But a council planning officer\u2019s report approving the plans concluded: \u201cThe proposed development represents an appropriate reuse of the existing upper-floor space within a mixed commercial frontage, retaining the ground-floor commercial use while delivering four residential units that meet adopted space standards. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe external alterations improve the appearance, coherence and functionality of the building without giving rise to harm to the streetscene or neighbouring amenity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plans can be <a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&amp;keyVal=T42K89JBM2600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viewed in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" 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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four flats will be created above restaurants\/hot food takeaways at 116 Stanningley Town Street \u2013 despite concerns from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,223893,1860,38409,225304,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-769458","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-kevin-ritchie","12":"tag-leeds","13":"tag-stanningley","14":"tag-stanningley-town-street","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116083596174955306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769458","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=769458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}