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Golcar Baptist Church, Chapel Lane, Golcar, Huddersfield, HD7 4HZ

2025/93571AmendmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 5 May 2026

Council decision: CERT OF LAWFUL OPPS GRANTED

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed installation of roof mounted solar panels (within a Conservation Area)

Received
31 December 2025
Ward
Golcar Ward
  1. Received31 Dec
  2. Validated31 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target25 Feb
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 125 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Golcar Baptist Church, Chapel Lane, Golcar, Huddersfield, HD7 4HZ. Kirklees has handled 1,184 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 10 weeks longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. The site is in the Golcar conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 65 applications across Golcar Ward. We hold 363 applications in total for the HD7 postcode area.

80% of amendment 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
HD7 4HZ
Application type
Amendment
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 December 2025
Target decision date
25 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4

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: Golcar
  • 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    23 Mar

    Work to Tree(s) within a Conservation Area

    WithdrawnTrees2026/90796

Source: Kirklees

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