Unit 1B Lock Hill Mills Holmes Road Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 3LD
Approved on 22 July 2025
Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from Use Class B8 (Storage and Distribution) to mixed use comprising Storage and Distribution (use Class B8), Café (Use Class E (b)) and Photography Studio (Use Class E (g) (iii))
- Received
- 21 June 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 5
- Ward
- Sowerby Bridge
- ReceivedReceived21 Jun
- ValidatedValidated10 Jul
- Consult.Consultation2 Jun
- TargetTarget Date24 Jul
- DecidedDecided22 Jul
Decided in 377 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Unit 1B Lock Hill Mills Holmes Road Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 3LD. Calderdale has handled 197 applications of this type. This one was decided in 396 days, 49 weeks longer than Calderdale's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across Sowerby Bridge. We hold 571 applications in total for the HX6 postcode area.
89% of amendment 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
- HX6 3LD
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Not In A Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 July 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 2 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 24 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 2 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 16 July 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 6 August 2024
- Last date for comments
- 10 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 24 July 2025
- Permission expires
- 22 July 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- FAO Mr Patrick Durkin Heritage Exchange South Lane Mills Elland HX6 3LD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 379 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 18
- Constraints
- 12
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
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Source: Calderdale
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