Old House At Eccup

Inquirer · Post by **Inquirer** » Mon 18 Jun, 2007 9:32 am

SimonBut this house IS owned by Leeds council. It is taking its time to decide what to do with it.

simon2710 · Post by **simon2710** » Mon 18 Jun, 2007 6:39 pm

Oh, it all makes sense now. I thought the family would have owned it and had put this up for Leeds City Council as they didn't want them to buy it but i realise now LCC must have put it up to stop someone else buying it.I do hope they don't knock it all down....there must be some way of renovating it.

Inquirer · Post by **Inquirer** » Wed 20 Feb, 2008 10:38 am

Still no decision from the council on Alice's old house on Village Road. But council planners have given the go-ahead for a house to be made from the old wooden Institute building. formerly Mount View garage. They turned down a new home plan for the site because of the Green Belt restrictions but have approved one which keeps strictly to the footprint of the present building.

Inquirer · Post by **Inquirer** » Wed 16 Jul, 2008 10:04 am

At last the council have got round to selling this property. It's taken them years to do it and unsurprisingly roof stones at the back were stolen last Easter. Eddisons are putting it up for auction on August 7 with a guide price of £75,000.But the auction particulars warn that the house is in the greenbelt and that redevelopment is not compatible with greenbelt planning policy, and that refurbishment of the site needs to be in accordance with the greenbelt setting of the cottage.

Inquirer · Post by **Inquirer** » Wed 06 Aug, 2008 12:27 pm

At the back of this house is a small Anderson shelter, a war-time bomb shelter with earth sides and a corrugated iron roof. They are named after Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary who authorised a special grant for poor people to install these at the beginning of Word War Two. Are there any others left in Leeds?

Inquirer · Post by **Inquirer** » Thu 07 Aug, 2008 9:59 am

Leeds planning department are not making it easy for the buyers of these cottages at today's auction. It says: "This site is in the Green Belt, and it is understood that the cottages are in a poor state of repair and may not be capable of residential use in their current state. However a demolition and rebuild of the property would not be considered acceptable in planning terms. For the existing building to be brought back into residential use, national planning policy in Planning Policy Statement 2: Green Belts states that the re-use of buildings in the Green Belt will only be appropriate provided that ‘the buildings are of permanent and substantial construction, and are capable of conversion without major or complete reconstruction’. If major or complete reconstruction would be required, it is highly unlikely that the re-use of the existing building as a dwelling or dwellings would be considered acceptable by the Council."

breed · Post by **breed** » Thu 07 Aug, 2008 11:50 pm

I believe the auction was today. Anyone any idea how much the cottages went for?

Inquirer · Post by **Inquirer** » Fri 08 Aug, 2008 11:08 am

I'm told there were four people who wanted this house badly and the auction price was pushed up and up... leaving the the 'guide' price of £75,000+ looking a bit unrealistic...until it went for £230,000 - a nice bonus for Leeds council tax payers.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Fri 08 Aug, 2008 12:49 pm

Well someone could have ended up" being sold a pup" with the planning restrictions on the property unless of course the buyer knows the right strings to pull or the right people in high places who can somehow bend the rules.It will be interesting to see what happens to the place.

Si · Post by Si » Mon 11 Aug, 2008 12:06 pm

Inquirer wrote: At the back of this house is a small Anderson shelter, a war-time bomb shelter with earth sides and a corrugated iron roof. They are named after Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary who authorised a special grant for poor people to install these at the beginning of Word War Two. Are there any others left in Leeds? Travelling up the A65 (Leeds Road) towards Rawdon, there is what looks like the remains of an Anderson shelter in the front garden of a house on the right. It looks like it was sliced in half, exposing it's cross-section, when the driveway was dug out. Could be something else, mind.