The Cross, Wyke Lane/Cross Street, Oakenshaw Data via plota.co.uk

2025/93235 Refused

Proposal

Removal of the Cross and reinstatement within the grass verge on Cross Street/Wyke Lane (Listed Building) Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 22:28

Application progress

✓

Received

21 Nov 2025

✓

Validated

25 Nov 2025

✗

Refused

12 Feb 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 12 Feb 2026 · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Kirklees District-Wide Planning Committee on 29 Jan 2026.

Refused

Against officer advice: officers had recommended approval.

Officers advised approval because the relocation would protect the listed cross, improve highway safety and enhance the public realm, subject to conditions.
Residents and local representatives raised concerns about heritage, archaeology, traffic safety and moving the cross from its original location.
The committee voted 5–2 to refuse, saying the cross should return to its original location and archaeological foundations should be maintained.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, public views, speakers, committee vote and reasons for refusal.

Source: Plota analysis of Kirklees's committee minutes of 29 Jan 2026.

Documents 1

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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Recorded mine shaft about 31 m from the postcode pin

Reference 416427-026. 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 2; Inside the Oakenshaw built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 8 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
Received: 21 Nov 2025
Validated: 25 Nov 2025
Ward: Cleckheaton Ward Old
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 20 Jan 2026
Decision: REFUSED UNDER REG.3 GENERAL REGULATIONS 1992
Decision date: 12 Feb 2026
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 79 days from validation, 4 days faster than Kirklees's median of 83 for full applications. Refused, as 9% of full applications here are.

This one79d

Council83d

UK56d

12%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

800decided in the last year

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

Kirklees

Planning Authority Score

2.6/10

Poor

#249 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

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

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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