Land at, Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU Data via plota.co.uk

2025/93460 Approved

Proposal

Partial discharge of details reserved by condition 18 (noise survey) of previous Reserved Matters approval for development of 91 dwellings, pursuant to outline permission (for erection of up to 127 dwellings, with details of access) Data via plota.co.uk

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Received
15 Dec 2025
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Approved
28 Jan 2026

Approved on 28 Jan 2026 · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Documents 1

Other documents 1

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Associated applications 5

Site constraints 6

Green belt: South and West Yorkshire
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Public footpath about 12 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.
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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 3. 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.
Recorded mine shaft about 33 m from the postcode pin
Reference 419427-004. Building over or close to a mine entry should be avoided, even once it is capped.
From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.
Coal mining risk assessments ↗
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Bradford and South Pennines; Radon affected area, class 3.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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
Kirklees
Postcode
BD11 2DU
Received
15 Dec 2025
Validated
15 Dec 2025
Ward
Birstall and Birkenshaw
Case officer
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Target decision
9 Feb 2026
Decision
DISCHARGE OF CONDITION(S) APPROVED
Decision date
28 Jan 2026
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 44 days from validation, 26 days faster than Kirklees's median of 70 for reserved matters. Approved, as 97% of reserved matters here are.

44%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
34decided in the last year

Plota live figures for reserved matters decided by Kirklees in the last twelve months, from validation. Kirklees decision record →

Historical activity at this location

34 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Discharge of details reserved by condition 17 (external lighting) of previous Reserved Ma…
2025/90095
2025 Approved
Discharge of details reserved by condition 20 (refuse collection points) on previous perm…
2025/92857
2025 Approved
Discharge of details reserved by condition 25 (external lighting - ecological impact) of…
2025/90093
2025 Approved
Discharge of details reserved by condition 19 (PROW) of previous Reserved Matters approva…
2025/90096
2025
Discharge of details reserved by condition 5 (retaining walls) of previous Reserved Matte…
2025/92335
2025 Approved
Discharge of details reserved by condition 10 (foul and surface water drainage) on outlin…
2025/90659
2023 Approved
Discharge of condition 13 (Pump House Design) of previous Reserved Matters 2022/91047 for…
2023/93552
2025
Discharge of details reserved by condition 16 (Validation Report) of outline permission 2…
2025/90450
2023 Approved
Discharge of condition 29 (education facilities) of previous outline permission 2019/9052…
2023/92474
2025 Approved
Discharge of details reserved by condition 10 (foul and surface water drainage strategy)…
2025/90050
2024 Approved
Non material amendment to previous Reserved Matters approval 2022/91047 for development o…
2024/92939
2025 Approved
Discharge of details reserved by condition 16 (electric vehicle charging) of previous Res…
2025/90094
2024 Approved
Discharge of condition 16 (Validation Report) of previous outline permission 2019/90527 f…
2024/90028
2023 Approved
Discharge of condition 10 (road condition surveys) of previous Reserved Matters approval…
2023/92719
2023 Approved
Discharge of condition 12 (drainage within/near highway) of previous reserved matters app…
2023/92377
2022 Approved
Reserved matters application for a development of 91 dwellings, pursuant to outline permi…
2022/91047
2023 Approved
Discharge condition 14 (Phase II Intrusive Site Investigation Report) on previous permiss…
2023/90428
2023 Approved
Discharge conditions 5 (highways), 18 (noise) on previous permission 2019/90527 for outli…
2023/90581
2022 Approved
Discharge of condition 13 (phase II site investigation) of previous outline permission 20…
2022/90349
2022 Approved
Discharge of condition 11 (site investigation) of previous outline permission 2019/90527…
2022/90409
2019 Approved
Outline application for the erection of up to 127 dwellings, with details of access
2019/90527
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Approved
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge of condition 28 (open space) of previous outline permission 2019/90527 for erec…
2022/92196
2023 Approved
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge of condition 4 (permanent site entrance) of previous Reserved Matters approval…
2023/92090
2023 Approved
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge of condition 3 (proposed internal roads, footways and footpaths) of previous Re…
2023/92089
2023 Approved
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge of condition 5 (new retaining walls) of previous reserved matters approval 2022…
2023/92092
2023 Approved
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge of condition 11 (drainage) of previous reserved matters approval 2022/91047 for…
2023/92137
2022 Approved
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge of conditions 6 (roundabout works), 7 (Travel Plan),17 (electric vehicle chargi…
2022/91898
2022 Approved
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge of condition 27 (affordable housing) of previous outline permission 2019/90527…
2022/91750
2023
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge condition 6 (Public Rights of Way) on previous permission 2022/91047 for reserv…
2023/92093
2023
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge condition 7 (ground investigations) on previous permission 2022/91047 for Reser…
2023/92094
2022 Approved
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Discharge of condition 8 (construction management plan) of previous outline permission (r…
2022/90985
2022 Refused
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Removal of condition 4 (number of dogs) on previous permission 2021/91015 for change of u…
2022/91101
2021 Approved
Blue Hills Farm, Whitehall Road West, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Change of use of grazing land to dog exercise area
2021/91015
2016 Refused
barn off, Marsh Lane, Birkenshaw, BD11 2DU
Prior notification for change of use of agricultural building to one dwellinghouse and as…
2016/91865
Kirklees
Planning Authority Score
2.6/10
Poor
#249 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

Kirklees is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #251 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 62% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines
expect longer than the statutory limit
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Kirklees decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #86 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #131 of 296
46%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #251 of 296
62%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #274 of 296
86%
Minor dwellings approved
248 decided (1-9 homes)
88%
Major dwellings approved
41 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
71 decided
1,779
Total decisions
151 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings