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78, John William Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1EH

2025/90548FullAwaiting decision
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use and alterations to convert offices to 14 apartments (use class C3) (Listed Building within a Conservation Area)

Received
27 February 2025
Decision due
5 September 2025
Ward
Newsome
  1. Received27 Feb
  2. Validated6 Jun
  3. Consult.18 Jul
  4. Target5 Sep
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 78, John William Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1EH. Kirklees has handled 10,679 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 27 February 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Huddersfield Town Centre conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 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.

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
HD1 1EH
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
14

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 June 2025
Consultation expiry
5 November 2025
Consultation start
6 June 2025
Consultation end
18 July 2025
Decision issued
Invalid Date

Applicant and agent

Architect profile
C49 ARCHITECTURE LTD
Agent address
1-2, Town Hall Buildings, Elland, HX5 9AJ

Planning decision

Decision
-
Case officer
William Simcock
Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
31

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

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. 2025
    27 Feb

    Change of use and alterations to convert offices to 14 apartments (use class C3) (Listed Building within a…

    This applicationFull2025/90548
  2. 2025
    27 Feb

    Listed Building Consent for change of use and alterations to convert offices to 14 apartments (use class C3)…

    Listed building consentFiled alongside2025/90549

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