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Mill Pond Lumb Lane Mill Bank Sowerby Bridge Calderdale

25/00558/192Lawful Dev. Certificate Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 August 2025

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Improvements to the mill pond to use as flood risk feature

Received
19 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ryburn
  1. Received19 May
  2. Validated17 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Aug
  5. Decided12 Aug

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Mill Pond Lumb Lane Mill Bank Sowerby Bridge Calderdale. Calderdale has handled 336 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 4 weeks longer than Calderdale's typical decision time. The site is in the Mill Bank and Cotton Stones conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across Ryburn.

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

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

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 June 2025
Target decision date
12 August 2025
Permission expires
12 August 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Mill Bank and Cottonstones
  • Green belt: Calderdale
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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

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© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    25 Sep

    Fell one tree (Trees in a Conservation Area)

    ApprovedApplication25/22069/TCA

Source: Calderdale

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