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Skircoat Library Skircoat Green Road Halifax Calderdale HX3 0LQ

22/00820/192Lawful Dev. Certificate Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 5 October 2022

Council decision: Grant Section 191/192 CertificateDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Implementation of a café ancillary to the primary use of a library

Received
25 July 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Salterhebble Southowram And Skircoat Green
  1. Received25 Jul
  2. Validated9 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Oct
  5. Decided5 Oct

Decided in 57 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Skircoat Library Skircoat Green Road Halifax Calderdale HX3 0LQ. Calderdale has handled 336 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 weeks longer than Calderdale's typical decision time. The site is in the Skircoat Green, Halifax conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Salterhebble Southowram And Skircoat Green. We hold 1,586 applications in total for the HX3 postcode area.

82% of outline applications at Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
HX3 0LQ
Application type
Lawful Dev. Certificate Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not In A Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 August 2022
Target decision date
4 October 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11417739
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Skircoat Green
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Calderdale

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