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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
208 approved · 74 refused · 21 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Aug 2020 to 17 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land Adjacent Sun Wood Service Station Halifax Road Shelf Halifax Calderdale
Received 30 Jul 2026Upper Cockcroft Farm Rishworth New Road Rishworth Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 4RE
Received 30 Jul 202624 Grange Avenue Holmfield Halifax Calderdale HX2 9AT
Received 30 Jul 2026Belmont Garage Rochdale Road Sowerby Bridge HX6 3BL
Received 30 Jul 2026101 Dudwell Lane Halifax Calderdale HX3 0SH
Received 31 Jul 2026Land South East Of Upper Bentley Royd Farm 7 Upper Bentley Royd Sowerby Bridge Calderdale
Received 30 Jul 2026Todmorden Specialist Visual Arts College Ewood Lane Todmorden OL14 7DG
Received 3 Aug 2026Land Opposite St Giles Close Hove Edge Brighouse
Received 3 Aug 202624 Woodhouse Gardens Brighouse Calderdale HD6 3UH
Received 3 Aug 2026Norwood House Cawcliffe Road Brighouse Calderdale HD6 2HP
Received 4 Aug 2026541 Gibbet Street Halifax Calderdale HX2 0AL
Received 4 Aug 2026Broad Fold Hall Dean House Lane Luddenden Sowerby Bridge Calderdale
Received 4 Aug 2026Old Earth Primary School Lower Edge Road Elland Calderdale HX5 9PL
Received 4 Aug 202644 Prospect Avenue Halifax Calderdale HX2 7HP
Received 4 Aug 20262 Rylston Gardens Halifax Calderdale HX3 0JG
Received 4 Aug 2026Whiteley Garage Storage Land Halifax Road Charlestown Hebden Bridge Calderdale
Received 4 Aug 2026Field House Dean Lane Sowerby Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 1NU
Received 4 Aug 2026Former Commercial Garage Oldham Road Ripponden Sowerby Bridge Calderdale
Received 4 Aug 2026140 Upper Lane Northowram Halifax Calderdale HX3 7SS
Received 5 Aug 2026Former Commercial Garage Oldham Road Ripponden Sowerby Bridge Calderdale
Received 5 Aug 2026Turner Avenue And Furness Avenue Illingworth Halifax Calderdale
Received 5 Aug 20264 Ivy Street Halifax Calderdale HX1 3EH
Received 6 Aug 2026Stables South West Of Lower Woodhead Barn Scammonden Road Barkisland Sowerby Bridge Calderdale
Received 6 Aug 2026Land Adjacent Asquith Care Home Burnley Road Todmorden
Received 6 Aug 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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