By John Baron
Amended plans to turn an empty Kirkstall shop into apartments have been approved by Leeds City Council planners.
The latest proposals would convert and and extend the former shop and store to create four one-bedroom apartments and a three-bedroom dwelling off the A65 Commercial Road.
It’s an increase of one flat on the previous planning permission, which gave the go ahead for three flats at the building in November 2023.
“At that time insufficient detail was available to confirm that the lower ground floor was suitable to be used as part of the conversion,” a planning statement submitted with the latest application said.
“Since then confirmation has been received from the Environment Agency that allows the lower ground floor to be used for residential accommodation.”
The latest plans – which can be viewed here – are the fifth set of proposals for the site. Prior to the 2023 approval three earlier planning applications for residential development were refused.
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