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former, Almondbury High School, Fernside Avenue, Huddersfield, HD5 8PQ

2024/91998FullApproved

Approved on 17 July 2025

Council decision: CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSION4 conditions

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

Proposal

Erection of special educational needs and disabilities school (Use Class F1), comprising educational buildings, roof mounted photo-voltaic panels, sensory garden spaces, multi-use games areas, landscaping, hardstanding areas, carparking, access with secure fencing and associated ancillary development

Received
16 July 2024
Ward
Almondbury Ward
  1. Received16 Jul
  2. Validated25 Jul
  3. Consult.2 Sep
  4. Target24 Oct
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 357 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at former, Almondbury High School, Fernside Avenue, Huddersfield, HD5 8PQ. Kirklees has handled 10,679 applications of this type. This one was decided in 366 days, 44 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Almondbury 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 8PQ
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Large

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 July 2024
Consultation expiry
2 September 2024
Consultation start
26 July 2024
Consultation end
2 September 2024
Target decision date
24 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
3rd Floor, 15, St Paul's Street, Leeds, LS1 2JG

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
112

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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