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The George Hotel, St George's Square, Huddersfield, HD1 1JA

2019/91506HeritageApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 19 September 2019

Council decision: CONSENT GRANTED

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Proposal

Listed Building consent for Partial change of use of hotel to 50 apart-hotel rooms, A3 (restaurant/cafe/function room), A4 (drinking establishment ), D1 (museum), Spa, ancillary storage and associated internal and external works (within a Conservation Area)

Received
7 May 2019
Ward
Newsome
  1. Received7 May
  2. Validated7 May
  3. Consult.9 Jun
  4. Target2 Jul
  5. Decided19 Sep

Decided in 135 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at The George Hotel, St George's Square, Huddersfield, HD1 1JA. Kirklees has handled 936 applications of this type. This one was decided in 135 days, 11 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. The site is in the Huddersfield Town Centre conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 112 applications across Newsome. We hold 1,844 applications in total for the HD1 postcode area.

95% of heritage 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
HD1 1JA
Application type
Heritage
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 May 2019
Consultation expiry
9 June 2019
Consultation start
14 May 2019
Consultation end
9 June 2019
Target decision date
2 July 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Headrow House, Old Leeds Road, Huddersfield, HD1 1SG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
26

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2019
    7 May

    Partial change of use of hotel to 50 apart-hotel rooms, A3 (restaurant/cafe/function room), A4 (drinking…

    CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSIONFullFiled alongside2019/91505
  2. 2019
    7 May

    Listed Building consent for Partial change of use of hotel to 50 apart-hotel rooms, A3…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent2019/91506

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