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26/03885/DAG - Agricultural Determination Approved
Agricultural

Proposal

Determination for Agricultural building for storage Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
8 Sept 2026
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Consultation
10 Sept 2026
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Approved
6 Oct 2026

Approved on 6 Oct 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 7 Oct 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF AGRICULTURAL DETERMINATION Decision · 6 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF OFFICER REPORT Report · 6 Oct 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF PLANNING APPLICATION FORM Application Form · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

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.
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Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 3; Coalfield, development low risk area.
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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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
Agricultural Determination
Postcode
LS25 3DL
Received
8 Sept 2026
Validated
8 Sept 2026
Ward
Garforth & Swillington
Parish
Aberford And District Parish Council
Target decision
3 Oct 2026
Decision
Approved
Decision date
6 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 28 days from validation, 21 days faster than Leeds's median of 49 for agricultural works. Approved, as 52% of agricultural works here are.

79%decided within 8 weeks
52%approved
37decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 7 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation
10 Sept 2026
Comments by
1 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry
3 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Consent agreement or approval required by condition 3 of planning application 24/06755/FU
25/03626/COND
2024 Approved
Variation of Condition 1 (approved plans) to Planning Permission ref. 17/00821/FU
24/06755/FU
2025 Approved
Variation of conditions 2 (approved plans), 14 (boundary treatments) and 20 (tonnages) of…
24/06772/FU
2023 Approved
Determination for Agricultural Building Grain Store
23/04769/DAG
2023 Approved
Determination for Agricultural Building Multi Purpose Agricultural Building
23/04825/DAG
2022 Approved
Installation of 7no. containers for storage/offices/associated activities; extension to e…
22/06872/FU
2022 Approved
Consent, agreement or approval required by condition 10 of Planning Application 21/07005/…
22/01491/COND
2021 Approved
Variation of conditions 21No. (Feedstock Tonnage), 23No. (Delivery Times) and removal of…
21/07005/FU
2017 Decided
Consent, agreement or approval required by conditions 6, 10, 14 and 15 of Planning Applic…
17/00822/COND
2017 Approved
Regularisation of screening bunds to perimeter of anaerobic digestion facility including…
17/00821/FU
2016 Decided
Consent, agreement or approval required by conditions 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18…
16/02414/COND
2016 Decided
Consent, agreement or approval required by conditions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 24 and 25…
16/01496/COND
2016 Approved
Installation of 18m lattice structure supporting 3no. antennas, 3no. RRUs, 2no. 0.3m tran…
16/03116/FU
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