Leeds planning applications: Headingley planning round-up

McDonald's and Morrisons are due to arrive in Headingley, and a local Catholic care home could be rebuilt.

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00:00We've headed to Headingley for this planning roundup of stories you may have missed, and

00:05first up, fast food chain McDonald's is set to open on Otley Road, despite fears it could

00:10add to unruly behaviour on the route of the Otley-run pub crawl.

00:15Leeds City Council received 20 letters of concern from people living nearby and ward

00:19councillors over planned alterations to the former Wilco store.

00:24In December last year a separate licensing application from Lounges UK to open a bar

00:28and restaurant at the same site was refused.

00:31A council planning report said the objections received were outside the scope of the planning

00:36application and on balance approval with conditions is recommended.

00:40Next, the Otley-run pub crawl has been mentioned in another planning application further down

00:46Otley Road.

00:47Morrisons has applied for an alcohol licence for its new store planned for the former Natwest

00:52Bank site.

00:53Ward councillors MP Alex Sobel and 23 people living nearby objected to the licence application,

01:00which would not allow alcohol sales between 1 and 6pm on Saturdays.

01:04An outcome on the Morrisons application is expected soon.

01:10And finally, a Catholic care home could be demolished and rebuilt after crumbling concrete

01:15made the building unsafe.

01:17More than 60 people had to be moved out when structural problems were found at Mount St

01:21Joseph's Catholic care home on Shire Oak Road.

01:25Little Sisters of the Poor, which has helped elderly people in Leeds for 160 years, has

01:29applied for planning permission for the demolition of existing buildings.

01:34The scheme would see a new sheltered housing scheme along with a chapel and convent built

01:38at the site, and it would be paid for with the development of 46 separate rented apartments.