Changes to the Unitary Development Plan (UDP)

New conservation areas have been designated at Linthwaite, Milnsbridge and Cross Bank Batley.

Existing conservation areas at Golcar, Market Place Batley, Station Road Batley, Upper Batley, Birstall, East Bierley, Upper Cumberworth, Upper Denby, High Flatts, Marsden, Wilshaw, Wellhouse, Helme, Oldfield, Holme, Upperthong, Edgerton and Dewsbury have had their boundaries amended.

UDP policies relating to conservation areas apply.

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• Conservation areas

An additional Site of Special Scientific Interest has been designated at Park Clough Marsden. UDP policies relating to SSSIs apply.

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• Contact Planning Policy

Within the area of Kirklees covered by the Unitary Development Plan, thirteen new Sites of Scientific Interest have been designated, all of which are Regionally Important Geological Sites except for Lane Side Quarry, Kirkheaton and Merrydale Clough, Slaithwaite. These sites are:

• Caulms Wood, Crackenedge, Dewsbury
• Hartley Bank Quarry, Thunder Bridge
• Beaumont Park, Huddersfield
• Castle Hill
• Brockholes and Round Wood, Brockholes
• March Haigh and Buckstones
• Longwood Edge Quarry
• Scar Hole Quarry, Hepworth
• School Quarry, Bolster Moor
• Pule Hill Quarry, Marsden
• Old Lindley Moor (part is in Calderdale)
• Lane Side Quarry
• Merrydale Clough, Slaithwaite
• Butterley Cutting, Marsden (most is within the Peak District National Park)

UDP policies relating to SSIs apply.

More information:

• Contact Planning Policy

The Special Protection Area (UDP policy NE2a) has also been designated as a Special Area for Conservation. This designation provides increased protection for a variety of wild animals, plants and habitats through the European Habitats Directive.

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• Contact Planning Policy

Six new local nature reserves have been designated, bringing the total within Kirklees to nine. These are at:

• Gledholt Woods, Huddersfield
• Sparrow Wood, Thornhill Lees
• Dalton Bank, Huddersfield
• Tong Moor, East Bierley
• Oakwell Country Park
• Sunny Bank Ponds, Mirfield
• Lower Spen Wildlife Park, Ravensthorpe
• Upper Park Wood, Honley
• Former sewage works, Dogley

Paragraph 3.8 of the Unitary Development Plan applies.

More information:

• Email: simon.pedley@kirklees.gov.uk

There have been five minor changes to the boundary of the Peak District National Park. These have been notified to Kirklees Council by the Peak Park Authority in order to correct inaccuracies in the boundary plotted on the UDP. In four of the five cases, a small area of land that was previously shown to be within the national park, has been removed from it. The designation of the land is deemed to be the same as that for contiguous land within the Kirklees UDP. The areas affected are:

Land now within the Kirklees UDP

• Binn Edge, south of Marsden
• Deer Hill Plantation, west of Meltham
• Mount Road, south of Marsden
• Shooter's Nab, west of Meltham

Land now outside the Kirklees UDP

• Land between Calmlands Road and Hebble Lane, Meltham