Images showing how a proposed new Leeds wedding venue may look have been released, though it’s feared the scheme may never get off the ground.
Developers want to build a 120 capacity venue, alongside 40 holiday lodges and a cafe, on the site of an old storage depot on Fleet Lane, in Oulton.
But a number of hurdles must be overcome before the idea even gets close to planning permission, including the risk of flooding off-site and the fact that a proposed car park would have to be built on greenbelt land.Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
Although the venture would create up to 55 jobs, the report said that it did not meet the terms of ’employment use’ that the land is earmarked for. Councillor Golton said: “This has the wholehearted endorsement of the local councillors and the local community. For the policy to class hospitality employment as not real jobs is appallingly contradictory and outdated.”
Conservative councillor Trish Smith said she had concerns about access to the site, which is remote and surrounded by theBut she added: “Ordinarily I’d protect the greenbelt with my life. I don’t consider this site to be greenbelt. I consider it to be an industrial site and I consider this would be a reasonable use, if it could be made to work in a sustainable manner.”Planning officers say the development would result in the loss of a protected wharf site.
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