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Soothill Working Mens Club, 151, Soothill Lane, Soothill, Batley, WF17 6HW

2026/91013Approved

Approved on 16 June 2026

Council decision: CONDITIONAL FULL PERMISSION5 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of Use from Social Club to Nursery

Submitted
13 April 2026
  1. Received13 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Jun

Decided in 64 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Soothill Working Mens Club, 151, Soothill Lane, Soothill, Batley, WF17 6HW. Kirklees has handled 20,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Kirklees's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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 6HW

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Architect profile
Orange Design Studio

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: Kirklees

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