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Bridge MDL 1/29, Soothill Lane, Batley, WF17 5SS

2025/91865Approved
Prior approval

Approved on 19 September 2025

Council decision: DETAILS APPROVED

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

Proposal

Prior approval for alterations to bridge MDL1/29, Soothill Lane Bridge, to the north of Batley Station (within a Conservation Area)

Received
7 July 2025
Ward
Batley East
  1. Received7 Jul
  2. Validated8 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target1 Sep
  5. Decided19 Sep

Decided in 73 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Bridge MDL 1/29, Soothill Lane, Batley, WF17 5SS. Kirklees has handled 20,471 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. The site is in the Station Road conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 66 applications across Batley East. We hold 1,583 applications in total for the WF17 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WF17 5SS
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 July 2025
Target decision date
1 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Kirklees

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