Leeds City Council is currently consulting on a Local Plan Update, to include the provision of additional planning policies, and a review of some of its existing strategic planning policies. This consultation is in direct response to the Council’s climate emergency, which was declared in 2019. The main focus of the Local Plan Update concerns climate change and environmental improvements, with the aim of achieving net zero emissions in Leeds by 2030. 

There is no opportunity, as part of this consultation process, to put forward new sites for development. However, consideration should be given to the viability of future developments if/once these policies are adopted, as they will create quite significant further financial costs for applications to meet planning policy requirements. Our Development Consultancy team has vast experience of providing development viability advice on site specific and policy level planning viability. Our advice covers planning obligations placed on a variety of developments including residential (both market sale and build to rent) and commercial schemes, aiming to ensure that a development is viable and deliverable.  

Consultation opened on 24th October 2022, and runs until 19th December 2022.

If you have a site within the Leeds Local Plan area and would like us to consider the potential implications these new policies may have on your future development please contact us to discuss further.