George Hotel, St George's Square, Huddersfield, HD1 1JA

2025/93154ConditionsApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 25 February 2026

Council decision: DISCHARGE OF CONDITION(S) APPROVED

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

Proposal

Discharge of details reserved by condition 21 (CEMP) of previous permission 2025/91147 for refurbishment and redevelopment of the George Hotel (including partial demolition, partial reconstruction and extension) to provide 108-bedroom hotel with bar, restaurant, gym, conference facilities and ancillary facilities

Received: 12 November 2025
Council: Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council
Ward: Newsome

ReceivedReceived12 Nov
ValidatedValidated18 Nov
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date13 Jan
DecidedDecided25 Feb

Decided in 99 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at George Hotel, St George's Square, Huddersfield, HD1 1JA. Kirklees has handled 1,877 applications of this type. This one was decided in 105 days, 7 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. The site is in the Huddersfield Town Centre conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There have been 17 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.

93% of conditions 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 1JA
Application type: Conditions
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 18 November 2025
Target decision date: 13 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Norwich Union House, 26, High Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2LF

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 8

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: Huddersfield Town Centre
Listed building: Grade II*: The George Hotel including stone-flagged area and surrounding walls and railings to the s…On or next to this site
Heritage at Risk Register: Huddersfield, Huddersfield
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 (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.

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.

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