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Somerset Arms, 53, Wakefield Road, Moldgreen, Huddersfield, HD5 9AB

2012/90723FullApproved

Approved on 30 May 2012

Council decision: CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSION

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

Proposal

Change of use of ground floor from Class A4 (public house) to Class A5 (hot food take-aways) and installation of replacement shop front. Erection of two storey extension and alterations to form 2 four bedroom houses of multiple occupation and alterations to form 2 studio flats.

Received
12 March 2012
Ward
Dalton Ward
  1. Received12 Mar
  2. Validated14 Mar
  3. Consult.3 May
  4. Target9 May
  5. Decided30 May

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Somerset Arms, 53, Wakefield Road, Moldgreen, Huddersfield, HD5 9AB. Kirklees has handled 10,679 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 3 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. The site is in 9 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 100 applications across Dalton Ward. We hold 796 applications in total for the HD5 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
HD5 9AB
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 March 2012
Consultation expiry
3 May 2012
Consultation start
23 March 2012
Consultation end
3 May 2012
Target decision date
9 May 2012

Applicant and agent

Agent address
31, Halifax Road, Brighouse, HD6 2AA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
11

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

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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.

Associated applications

  1. 2012
    3 Dec

    Variation of condition 2 on previous permission 2012/90723

    REMOVAL OR MODIFICATION OF CONDITION(S)Variation of conditions (s73)2012/93811
  2. 2012
    9 Nov

    Non material amendment on previous planning permission no. 2012/90723

    RefusedNon-material amendmentAmendment2012/93457
  3. 2012
    12 Mar

    Change of use of ground floor from Class A4 (public house) to Class A5 (hot food take-aways) and installation…

    This applicationCONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSIONFull2012/90723

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