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St Pauls House, Armitage Road, Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield, HD4 7NR

2025/92990FullApproved

Approved on 31 March 2026

Council decision: CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSION10 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use and alterations to convert former hairdressers to a school / alternative education provision including associated works (Listed Building within a Conservation Area)

Received
27 October 2025
Ward
Newsome
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated20 Nov
  3. Consult.11 Dec
  4. Target15 Jan
  5. Decided31 Mar

Decided in 131 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at St Pauls House, Armitage Road, Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield, HD4 7NR. Kirklees has handled 10,679 applications of this type. This one was decided in 155 days, 14 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. The site is in the Armitage Bridge conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 115 applications across Newsome. We hold 1,698 applications in total for the HD4 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
HD4 7NR
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 November 2025
Consultation expiry
11 December 2025
Consultation start
20 November 2025
Consultation end
11 December 2025
Target decision date
15 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
10

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, 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
    27 Oct

    Change of use and alterations to convert former hairdressers to a school / alternative education provision…

    This applicationApprovedFull2025/92990
  2. 2025
    27 Oct

    Listed Building Consent for change of use and alterations to convert former hairdressers to a school /…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside2025/92991

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