Land West Of The Barn Shaw Bottom Farm Bow Lane Blackshaw Head Hebden Bridge Calderdale Data via plota.co.uk

26/00206/FUL - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Installation of solar panels to the roof of an existing agricultural building. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:56

Application progress

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Received

6 Mar 2026

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Validated

9 Apr 2026

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Consultation

14 Apr 2026

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Approved

4 Jun 2026

Approved on 4 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 29

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice Decision Notice · 4 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF OFFICER REPORT Report · 4 Jun 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 7

PDF CLIMATE CHANGE STATEMENT Supporting Information · 9 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF BAT ASSESSMENT FORM Supporting Information · 7 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF LANDSCAPE IMPACT ASSESSMENT Supporting Information · 6 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF HERITAGE STATEMENT Supporting Information · 6 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF SPECIES ENHANCEMENT STATEMENT Supporting Information · 6 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT Supporting Information · 6 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF CALDERDALE CLIMATE_CHANGE STATEMENT Supporting Information · 6 Mar 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 11

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 6 Mar 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF CONSULTEE COMMENT SUBMITTED ONLINE Consultee Comment · 5 May 2026 View ↗ PDF CONSULTEE COMMENT SUBMITTED ONLINE Consultee Comment · 27 Apr 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 8

Public bridleway about 1 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Pennine Bridleway about 1 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.

Agricultural land, grade 5

Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Nature recovery project: Bradford and South Pennines; Radon affected area, class 3; National infrastructure project: Calderdale Energy Park, at pre-application; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Calderdale
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: HX7 7JX
Received: 6 Mar 2026
Validated: 9 Apr 2026
Ward: Hebden Bridge And Todmorden East
Parish: Blackshaw Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 4 Jun 2026
Decision: Permit
Decision date: 4 Jun 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, 11 days faster than Calderdale's median of 67 for full applications. Approved, as 86% of full applications here are.

This one56d

Council67d

UK56d

46%decided within 8 weeks

86%approved

146decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Calderdale in the last twelve months, from validation. Calderdale decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14755202
Planning Portal ref: PP-14755202
Neighbours: 14 Apr 2026
Consultation: 14 Apr 2026
Comments by: 14 May 2026
Site or press notice: 22 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry: 4 Jun 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

2 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved

1 Cally Hall Farm Cottages Badger Lane Blackshaw Head Hebden Bridge HX7 7JP

Single storey rear extension and part cladding of rear.

25/00844/HSE 6 Oct 2025

2024 Approved

2 Cally Hall Farm Cottages Badger Lane Blackshaw Head Hebden Bridge Calderdale HX7 7JP

Replacement of front porch with new stone porch, replacement of existing rear room with n…

24/00462/HSE 26 Jul 2024

Calderdale

Planning Authority Score

2.7/10

Poor

#240 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Calderdale ranks #193 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. 50% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (87%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Calderdale decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

86%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #192 of 296

87%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #229 of 296

58%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #193 of 296

50%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #223 of 296

73%

Minor dwellings approved

103 decided (1-9 homes)

82%

Major dwellings approved

11 decided (10+ homes)

89%

Change of use approved

61 decided

856

Total decisions

121 refused in the year to March 2026