{"id":852022,"date":"2026-03-26T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/852022\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:26:16","slug":"pudsey-housing-plan-moves-forward-despite-42-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/852022\/","title":{"rendered":"Pudsey housing plan moves forward &#8211; despite 42 objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By Don Mort<\/strong>, local democracy reporter<\/p>\n<p>Plans for a new housing development can go ahead \u2013 despite dozens of objections from people living nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Planning permission was granted for nine houses on a site off Alder Drive in Pudsey.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds City Council received 42 objections from nearby householders who raised concerns over road safety and the impact on green belt land.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative councillor Andrew Carter also objected and asked that it was referred to the council\u2019s South and West plans panel.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of councillors voted for approval (five approvals and two abstentions) when the panel met today (Thursday, 26 March).<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Carter had concerns over the impact on nearby homes and called for the scheme to be deferred to a future panel.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cResidents are quite rightly concerned that this application represents a step towards further development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was told only a small section of green belt land would be affected by a new access road.<\/p>\n<p>Pudsey resident Damon Sugden said there were \u2018fundamental questions of deliverability\u2019 regarding the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>A council planning officer\u2019s report recommended councillors approve the plans, subject to a raft of planning conditions. The report praised the \u2018high standard of design that respects local character\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Alastair Curran, of developer Newett Homes, said the scheme would provide much-needed family homes.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe proposal is policy-compliant.\u00a0In fact the proposal is supported by consultees and would secure several public benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the development would be policy complaint, less than 4% of it was on green belt land and that it was surrounded by properties on three sides.<\/p>\n<p>The panel\u2019s decision means final approval is delegated to the council\u2019s chief planning officer, subject to conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Additional reporting:<strong> John Baron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><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 href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Don Mort, local democracy reporter Plans for a new housing development can go ahead \u2013 despite dozens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[238727,169661,748,214244,393,4884,1860,101522,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-852022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-alder-drive","9":"tag-andrew-carter","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-don-mort","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-leeds","15":"tag-pudsey","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116296652463466700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852022","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=852022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}