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56, Wellington Street, Batley, WF17 5HU

2010/92596FullApproved

Approved on 5 November 2010

Council decision: CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSION

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use from media and arts centre to independent school and internal alterations (within a Conservation Area)

Received
6 September 2010
Ward
Batley East Ward
  1. Received6 Sep
  2. Validated16 Sep
  3. Consult.11 Oct
  4. Target11 Nov
  5. Decided5 Nov

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 56, Wellington Street, Batley, WF17 5HU. Kirklees has handled 10,679 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Batley East Ward. We hold 1,583 applications in total for the WF17 postcode area.

91% of full applications at Kirklees 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
WF17 5HU
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 September 2010
Consultation expiry
11 October 2010
Consultation start
20 September 2010
Consultation end
11 October 2010
Target decision date
11 November 2010

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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: Kirklees

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