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A PPG17 Study shows our area needs at least 8 more tennis courts

Anyone for tennis ? Not if the Planning Department has anything to do with it

t the meeting of Plans Panel West that took place on the 12th August 2010, planning officer Paul Gough told elected members that the Leeds Girls High tennis courts are not needed as there’s no demand for additional tennis courts in the area. He based his claim partly on the fact that six tennis courts [...]

The Planning Department tells councillors that all the historic Main School Building will be retained, when the intention is to demolish 50% of it

In a report submitted to Plan Panel West on the 12th August 2010, Chief Planning Officer Phil Crabtree claimed that under plans submitted by the school, only later additions to the historic Main School Building would be demolished. And at the meeting of Plans Panel West that took place on the 12th August 2010, senior [...]

An Exercise in Coercion ?

At today’s meeting of Plans Panel West, councillors were given a mind numbing cocktail of misinformation and omission which might have fooled Solomon. And in case that wasn’t enough, there was even a bribe thrown in and a threat that the School might sue if no decision was made on the Leeds Girls High planning [...]

Who runs Leeds, our elected councillors, or unelected bureaucrats at the Planning Department?

his Thursday, the 12th August, the councillors of Plans Panel West led by Councillor Neil Taggart, will decide applications from the Grammar School at Leeds to build on the former Leeds Girls High School playing fields at Headingley. Logic dictates that the councillors will refuse the applications, since Leeds City Council’s Unitary Development Plan gives [...]

Another overwhelming vote to retain all three Leeds Girls High N6 Protected Playing Pitches

onight’s public meeting was attended by over a hundred people and culminated in an overwhelming vote in favour of a resolution to retain all three Leeds Girls’ High Protected Playing Pitches and for Leeds City Council to purchase them at playing pitch value (about £12,000). There were no votes against and only three abstentions. This [...]

What a joke !

t’s been announced in today’s Yorkshire Evening Post that the Grammar School at Leeds is offering to let the public use Ford House Garden for the next ten years. The offer is conditional on the school being given planning permission to build on the main school site Protected Playing Pitch. In 2007 we rejected an [...]

Public meeting on the Leeds Girls High planning application – 7pm Monday 7.12.09 at City Church

he Grammar School at Leeds has now re-presented its planning applications for the Leeds Girls High site. These are practically the same as the ones rejected by the community a year ago, but with a few minor changes. The effect is still the same : building development on the Protected Playing Pitches (the pitches have [...]

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