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Commercial Hotel, 125, Wellington Street, Batley, WF17 5TH

2022/92199FullApproved

Approved on 12 February 2024

Council decision: CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSION

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

Proposal

Change of use of waste land to car sales forecourt and erection of sales office and valet store

Received
29 June 2022
Ward
Batley East
  1. Received29 Jun
  2. Validated6 Dec
  3. Consult.8 Sep
  4. Target31 Jan
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 68 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Commercial Hotel, 125, Wellington Street, Batley, WF17 5TH. Kirklees has handled 10,679 applications of this type. This one was decided in 593 days, 77 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Batley East. 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 5TH
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 December 2023
Consultation expiry
8 September 2022
Consultation start
5 July 2022
Consultation end
8 September 2022
Target decision date
31 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Unit B3, Ground floor, Illuma Park, Gelders Hall Road, Shepshed, LE12 9NH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
22

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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