Land At Sovereign Square Sovereign Street Leeds LS1 4BT Data via plota.co.uk

Decided 25/04333/COND
Appeal
Allowed · 29 Jan 2026 · Hearing · Inspectorate case 6001004 ↗
Council
Leeds 5.3/10
Date received
around 21 Jul 2025
Date validated
21 Jul 2025
Postcode
LS1 4BT

Description

Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 17 (cycle parking) of Planning Application Data via plota.co.uk

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Associated applications 3

Site constraints 8

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Article 4 direction
A4D01. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Conservation area about 55 m away: Central Area - Canal Wharf; Coalfield, development low risk area; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Inside the Leeds (Leeds) built-up area; National infrastructure project about 984 m away: Calderdale Energy Park, at pre-application.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 15 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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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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Historical activity at this location

30 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 5 of Planning Application 20/00001/FU
24/06964/COND
2024 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by Condition 13 to Planning Application 20/00001/…
24/02120/COND
2022 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by conditions 10 and 11 of Planning Application 2…
22/08123/COND
2024 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by conditions 16 and 18 to planning application 2…
24/02109/COND
2024 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by Condition 23 to Planning Application 20/00001/…
24/01569/COND
2023 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 8 and 9 of Planning Application 20/0…
23/07638/COND
2023 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 19 of Planning Application 20/0001/FU
23/06269/COND
2022 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 8 of Planning Application 20/00001/FU
22/07327/COND
2023 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 9 of Planning Application 20/00001/FU
23/00054/COND
2023 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by Condition 7 of Planning Application 20/00001/FU
23/00053/COND
2022 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by conditions 6, 7 and 24 of Planning Application…
22/02968/COND
2022 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval requried by condition 4 and 5 of Planning Application 20/0…
22/02033/COND
2022 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 3 of Planning Application 20/00001/FU
22/01690/COND
2020
Erection of hotel (C1), ancillary bar and restaurant, landscaping and associated works
20/00001/FU
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
Hilton International Hotel Neville Street Leeds LS1 4BX
T2 Maple sp - Remove dead branch stub T4 Rowan - Remove small dead branch to east side 3m…
25/01751/TR
2024 Approved
Hyatt Hotel 2 Sovereign Square Leeds LS1 4BT
Four illuminated high level signs and two illuminated low level entrance signs to new hot…
24/02799/ADV
2023 Approved
The Wharf Neville Street Leeds LS1 4AZ
Replacement roof-mounted Air Handling Units (AHUs)
23/04621/FU
2022 Approved
Hideout 2 Sovereign Place Leeds LS1 4SP
Retrospective application for a change of use from sexual entertainment venue to bar
22/05685/FU
2019 Approved
1 Sovereign Street Leeds LS1 4BT
Two illuminated signs and one non illuminated totem sign
19/04300/ADV
2019 Approved
The Embankment Neville Street Leeds LS1 4DW
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 11 of Planning Application 15/04979/…
19/00422/COND
2018 Approved
1 The Embankment Neville Street Leeds LS1 4DW
Certificate of Proposed Lawful Development for: i) the removal of existing surfacing and…
18/05847/CLP
2018 Decided
The Embankment Neville Street Leeds LS1 4DW
Consent, agreement or approval required by conditions 3, 4, 7, 9 and 11 of Planning Appli…
18/05846/COND
2018 Approved
City House New Station Street Leeds LS1 4JR
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 5 of Planning Application 15/06992/FU
18/02181/COND
2018 Approved
The Arch 18 Neville Street Leeds LS1
Change of use from A1 shop to A4 wine bar
18/00082/FU
2017 Approved
Platform New Station Street Leeds LS1 4JR
Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of approval 15/04272/FU for replacement elevati…
17/9/00244/MOD
2017 Approved
City House New Station Street Leeds LS1 4JR
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 6 of Planning Application 15/06992/FU
17/03905/COND
2017 Approved
City House New Station Street Leeds LS1 4JB
Artwork to gable wall
17/02256/ADV
2017 Approved
City House New Station Street Leeds LS1 4JB
Four illuminated and one non illuminated sign
17/00977/ADV
2016 Refused
1 The Embankment Neville Street Leeds LS1 4DW
Change of use from office (B1) to school (D1)
16/05675/DPD
2016 Approved
2 Sovereign Place Leeds LS1 4SP
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 3 of Planning Application 15/07093/FU
16/04246/COND
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
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings