{"id":915377,"date":"2026-04-24T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/915377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:46:17","slug":"new-flats-plan-submitted-at-former-pudsey-hsbc-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/915377\/","title":{"rendered":"New flats plan submitted at former Pudsey HSBC building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By John Baron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fresh plans to transform the former HSBC Bank building in Pudsey into five one-bedroom flats have been submitted to Leeds City Council.<\/p>\n<p>Applicant Mohammed Abbas, of REF79 Ltd, has submitted the proposals, for the Church Lane building, which has been empty empty since<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/new-closure-date-for-pudsey-hsbc-branch-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0it closed its doors<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A letter accompanying panting the application said: \u201cPlanning policy, both national and regional, support the promotion of car free development if justification can be made on sustainability grounds and access to public transport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe site is clearly located within 65m walking distance of a bus public transport hub. In addition residents can get all of their shopping within a few minutes of walking of the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proximity of the site to a bus public transport interchange, services and facilities is enough justification for the planning authority to approve the development proposal especially when a cycle locker for the residents to use will be provided. Further to this any new tenants will be made aware that there is no car parking available in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The building has been the subject of a number of previous planning applications for residential and a hot food takeaway. <\/p>\n<p>The latest proposals \u2013 which would change the use of the building from commercial to five dwellinghouses\u00a0can be<a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=TCG6JGJBJXE00&amp;activeTab=summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> viewed in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"0\" class=\"wp-block-list\"\/>\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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.specsavers.co.uk\/stores\/kirkstall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By John Baron Fresh plans to transform the former HSBC Bank building in Pudsey into five one-bedroom flats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,256828,393,4884,12522,1860,101522,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-915377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-church-lane","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-hsbc","13":"tag-leeds","14":"tag-pudsey","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116459758953219294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915377","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=915377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}