Change of Use

Planning consent to change of use of hotel (with function room and restaurant) to five 4 bedroomed dwellings and four 3 bedroomed dwelling, involving partial demolition and new build.
Tower House Hotel Master Lane Halifax Calderdale HX2 7EW (20/00053/FUL)

Change of use of a public house to 4 dwellings (16/00780) Moorcock, Norland Moor, Halifax

Change of use of a barn to a dwelling (2018/90822) at Bank House Farm, Judy Haigh Lane, Thornhill Edge, Dewsbury, WF12 0PE

Larger Developments

Outline planning consent (18/01286/OUT) for 18 houses at  Lower Brockwell Lane Triangle, Sowerby Bridge in advance of the publication of the local plan.

Planning and listed building consent for the conversion of offices to form 11 apartments at  Highfield House, Hemsworth Walk, Ripon HG4 2SG  (17/05214/FULMAJ) (17/05051/LB) 

Change of use and extension of public house to form ten apartments (2018/62/91202/W) at the Grove, Dalton, Huddersfield

Nine apartments at High Skellgate, Ripon (15/00522/FUL), Harrogate

Other Residential Work

Consent for a residential development of four houses was secured on appeal, following a refusal on grounds of access (APP/A4710/W/19/3223362 ) to rear of 12 Green Lane, Shelf, Halifax HX3 7TR

Following the refusal of an extension of a house to form an additional dwelling, largely on the ground of impact on character of the area, I secured planning consent for an additional house in the garden of 59 Roman Avenue, Roundhay, Leeds LS8 2AN.
(Appeal Ref: APP/N4720/W/20/3250836)

Infill housing plot

There are occasions where a local authority will resist the development of infill sites for housing.

Conservation Areas

A refusal by Leeds Council on grounds of the impact on the character of the Conservation Area was overturned on appeal (Appeal Ref: APP/N4720/W/18/3218009) 21 Victoria Street, Calverley, Pudsey, LS28 5PT (March 2019) where I successful argued there would be no adverse impact on the character of the area, hence there was no conflict with local planning policy.A similar refusal on design grounds was overturned for the demolition of a bungalow and the reconstruct new dwelling (Appeal Ref: APP/X4725/W/18/3202304) 2018, at 1 Roger Drive, Sandal, Wakefield WF2 7NE.