Highwood Millfield Farm Harrogate Road Harewood Leeds LS17 9JB Data via plota.co.uk

25/07153/FU - Full Planning Application Refused

Proposal

Removal of existing septic tank to relocate and install bio-disc water treatment plant; associated works including new manhole and soakaway Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
26 Jan 2026
✓
Consultation
27 Jan 2026
✗
Refused
23 Mar 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 23 Mar 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Site constraints 10

Green belt: South and West Yorkshire
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
Read the government guidance ↗
Registered park or garden about 21 m away: Harewood House
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project: Calderdale Energy Park, at pre-application; SSSI about 445 m away: Eccup Reservoir SSSI; Inside the Leeds (Leeds) built-up area; Priority habitat about 21 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Leeds
Application type
Full Planning Application
Postcode
LS17 9JB
Received
26 Jan 2026
Validated
26 Jan 2026
Ward
Alwoodley
Parish
Harewood Parish Council
Target decision
23 Mar 2026
Decision
Refused
Decision date
23 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Southgate & Sarabia Architects Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 55 days. Refused, as 24% of utility and infrastructure works here are.

68%decided within 8 weeks
76%approved
102decided in the last year

Plota live figures for utility and infrastructure works decided by Leeds in the last twelve months, from validation. Leeds decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Neighbours
27 Jan 2026
Consultation
27 Jan 2026
Comments by
19 Feb 2026
Statutory expiry
23 Mar 2026
Env. assessment
No
Leeds
Planning Authority Score
5.3/10
Average
#131 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Leeds is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #95 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (85%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Leeds decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
83%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #238 of 296
85%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #249 of 296
73%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #95 of 296
33%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #78 of 296
70%
Minor dwellings approved
208 decided (1-9 homes)
86%
Major dwellings approved
36 decided (10+ homes)
68%
Change of use approved
279 decided
3,681
Total decisions
613 refused in the year to March 2026