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Empress Works, St Thomas' Road, Huddersfield, HD1 3LJ

2012/90144FullApproved

Approved on 8 February 2013

Council decision: CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSION

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

Proposal

Change of use from office building to restaurant and function hall and formation of car park

Received
18 January 2012
Ward
Newsome Ward
  1. Received18 Jan
  2. Validated26 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target22 Mar
  5. Decided8 Feb

Decided in 379 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Empress Works, St Thomas' Road, Huddersfield, HD1 3LJ. Kirklees has handled 10,679 applications of this type. This one was decided in 387 days, 47 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,841 applications in total for the HD1 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
HD1 3LJ
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 January 2012
Consultation expiry
19 March 2012
Consultation start
27 February 2012
Consultation end
19 March 2012
Target decision date
22 March 2012

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2, Stamford Road, Bowdon, Altrincham, WA14 2JU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
33

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2012
    18 Jan

    Change of use from office building to restaurant and function hall and formation of car park

    This applicationCONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSIONFull2012/90144
  2. 2012
    18 Jan

    Erection of non-illuminated signs

    ApprovedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside2012/90145

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