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Butchers Arms, 38, Town Gate, Hepworth, Holmfirth, HD9 1TE

2025/92672HeritageApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 22 January 2026

Council decision: CONSENT GRANTED2 conditions

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

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for change of use and alterations to convert first floor to ancillary residential accommodation and additional dining/community meeting space and alterations to convert bathroom at second floor level to storage space (within a Conservation Area)

Received
23 September 2025
Ward
Holme Valley South
  1. Received23 Sep
  2. Validated23 Sep
  3. Consult.6 Nov
  4. Target18 Nov
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 121 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a change of use at Butchers Arms, 38, Town Gate, Hepworth, Holmfirth, HD9 1TE. Kirklees has handled 936 applications of this type. This one was decided in 121 days, 9 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. The site is in the Hepworth conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There have been 16 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 151 applications across Holme Valley South. We hold 4,652 applications in total for the HD9 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
HD9 1TE
Application type
Heritage
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 September 2025
Consultation expiry
6 November 2025
Consultation start
30 September 2025
Consultation end
6 November 2025
Target decision date
18 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Office G of H, 2nd Floor Bridge Mills, Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth, HD9 3TW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Hepworth
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    23 Sep

    Change of use and alterations to convert first floor to ancillary residential accommodation and additional…

    CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSIONFullFiled alongside2025/92671
  2. 2025
    23 Sep

    Listed Building Consent for change of use and alterations to convert first floor to ancillary residential…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent2025/92672

Planning history at this site

15 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2023
    22 Aug

    Alterations to extraction system (Within a Conservation Area)

    CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSIONFull2023/92519
  2. 2023
    22 Aug

    Listed Building Consent for alterations to extraction system (Within a Conservation Area)

    ApprovedListed building consent2023/92520
  3. 2021
    8 Sep

    Change of use from residential to create additional dining space and kitchen store including alterations to…

    RefusedFull2021/93551
  4. 2021
    6 Sep

    Alterations to extraction system (Within a Conservation Area)

    RefusedFull2021/93509
  5. 2021
    6 Sep

    Listed Building Consent for alterations to extraction system (Within a Conservation Area)

    ApprovedListed building consent2021/93510
  6. 2021
    25 Jan

    Listed Building Consent for erection of single storey rear extension, exterior alterations and installation…

    ApprovedListed building consent2021/90262

Source: Kirklees

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