Kirklees planning committee
Councillor Eric Firth
Lab Co-opSeen at planning committee from November 2025 to April 2026
- 100%attendance
- 11decisions at their meetings
As at 8 October 2026, according to Plota’s analysis of Kirklees’s published minutes, Councillor Eric Firth attended 5 of the 5 planning committee meetings whose minutes list them, from November 2025 to April 2026. The committee decided 11 applications at those meetings. The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote on them.
- Meetings attended
- 5 of 5100%
- Meetings whose minutes list them as present, sending apologies or absent. Minutes that list only those present cannot show an absence. 1 meeting as a substitute.
- Decisions at their meetings
- 11
- Applications decided at the meetings they sat on, as the minutes record them.
- Declared interests
- 0
- Decisions on which the minutes record them declaring an interest.
Voting record
The minutes we hold do not give each member's vote at these meetings, so no vote is counted for Firth and no voting chart is drawn.
Attendance
100%
5 of 5 meetings whose minutes list them.
The typical member of this committee attended 90% (the median of 8 members listed at 5 or more meetings).
Every meeting
Each square is a meeting whose minutes list them, oldest first.
District-Wide Planning Committee: 4 meetings · Strategic Planning Committee: 1 meeting
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| Date | Committee | Attendance |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Apr 2026 | District-Wide Planning Committee | Present |
| 5 Mar 2026 | District-Wide Planning Committee | Present |
| 29 Jan 2026 | District-Wide Planning Committee | Present |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Strategic Planning Committee | Present as a substitute |
| 27 Nov 2025 | District-Wide Planning Committee | Present |
Decisions
Every application decided at a meeting they sat on, newest first, with their vote where the minutes give it.
- adj, Huddersfield Open Market, Brook Street, HuddersfieldTemporary indoor market · 2025/93197 Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- Huddersfield Open Market, Brook Street, HuddersfieldMarket building redevelopment · 2025/92443 Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- Lumb Lane Nurseries, Lumb Lane, Almondbury, HuddersfieldFour dwellings · 2025/92440 Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- The Cross, Wyke Lane/Cross Street, OakenshawCross relocation · 2025/93235 RefusedAgainst officer advice Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- adj, Huddersfield Open Market, Brook Street, HuddersfieldTemporary indoor market · 2025/93197 Deferred Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- Huddersfield Open Market, Brook Street, HuddersfieldMarket building redevelopment · 2025/92443 Deferred Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- Land off, Kenmore Drive, CleckheatonExtra care housing changes · 2025/91279 Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- Turnbridge Mills, Quay Street, HuddersfieldMixed-use mill redevelopment · 2025/91645 Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- Turnbridge Mills, Quay Street, HuddersfieldMixed-use employment redevelopment · 2025/91122 Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- Kelvin Villa, 1, Newsome Street, DewsburyFirst-floor side extension · 2025/91657 Approved Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
- 47, Huddersfield Road, MirfieldHot food takeaway · 2025/90487 RefusedAgainst officer advice Not recordedThe minutes do not say how each member voted
No decision matches these filters.
In the minutes
What the minutes record Firth moving, seconding, asking or saying on each decision, in the minutes’ own words. Passages that name more than one councillor, or a member of the public, are left out.
The minutes we hold do not quote this councillor by name.
How this is worked out
Everything here is read from Kirklees’s published planning committee minutes, 14 meetings from September 2025 to October 2026. A councillor is matched across meetings by the council’s own member number where it has one, otherwise by full name.
Each vote shows how it is known. Named in the minutes: the minutes, or the council’s own recorded vote, list each member with their vote. From the count and the names: the minutes give the numbers and name the members in the minority, and every member present is known. All members present in favour: the minutes say every member voted for it and the members present are known. No vote against recorded: the minutes record the decision with no vote against, no abstention and no count, at a council whose minutes print a divided vote when there is one, so each member present is counted for. Unanimous vote: the minutes call the decision unanimous, or give a count with no one against and no one abstaining, and each member present is counted for. From the meeting recording: the vote was heard on the council’s recording of the meeting and closes exactly with the members present. Where none of these holds, the vote is left as “Not recorded” and is not counted.
Votes are on the resolution the committee passed, so a vote for is a vote with the majority. A vote is a decision on the application in front of the committee, not a statement of the councillor’s views. A percentage is shown only with five or more votes, decisions or meetings behind it.
Source: Plota analysis of the council’s minutes. The party is from the council’s own list of councillors.
Also on this committee
- Andrew PinnockLib Dem
- Mohan SokhalLabour
- Susan Lee-RichardsGreen
- Cathy ScottLabour
- Bill ArmerConservative
- James HomewoodLabour
- Sheikh UllahLabour
- Donna BellamyConservative
- Paola Antonia DaviesLib Dem
- Mark ThompsonConservative
- Tony McGrathConservative
- Alison MunroLib Dem
- John TaylorConservative
- Munir AhmedLabour
- Zahid KahutIndependent