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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208 approved · 74 refused · 21 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Barn Adjacent To 49 Spark House Lane Sowerby Bridge Calderdale
Received 14 Aug 202618 Springwood Drive Copley Halifax Calderdale HX3 0TQ
Received 17 Aug 2026Lyndale Wadsworth Lane Hebden Bridge HX7 8DQ
Received 17 Aug 2026Rockleigh Albert Promenade Savile Park Halifax HX3 0HW
Received 17 Aug 2026The Tower Brighouse Wood Lane Brighouse Calderdale HD6 2AL
Received 17 Aug 20261 - 12 Crossley Street Halifax Calderdale HX1 1UG
Received 14 Aug 20261 - 12 Crossley Street Halifax Calderdale HX1 1UG
Received 14 Aug 2026The Beeches 2 Bute Avenue Brighouse Calderdale HD6 2JA
Received 18 Aug 2026Land West Of The Breck Saddleworth Road Barkisland Sowerby Bridge Calderdale
Received 17 Aug 20261 Blue Ball Cottages Norland Town Road Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 3RQ
Received 18 Aug 2026Tesco Stores Limited Sowerby Street Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 3BN
Received 18 Aug 202619 Crag Lane Wheatley Halifax Calderdale HX2 8TP
Received 18 Aug 2026Land North Of Upper Foot Farm Upper Foot Luddenden Foot Sowerby Bridge Calderdale
Received 17 Aug 202637 Woodhouse Lane Brighouse Calderdale HD6 3TH
Received 18 Aug 202616 And 18 Halifax Road Todmorden Calderdale OL14 5AD
Received 18 Aug 2026Sunny Royd Denholme Gate Road Hipperholme Brighouse Calderdale HX3 8JQ
Received 18 Aug 202610 Spring Grove Halifax Calderdale HX1 4TG
Received 19 Aug 2026Pickwood Barn Pickwood Lane Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX6 3RA
Received 19 Aug 2026Tanglewood Midgley Road Mytholmroyd Hebden Bridge Calderdale HX7 5LR
Received 19 Aug 202688 Hoults Lane Greetland Elland Calderdale HX4 8HN
Received 20 Aug 2026Castlefields Golf Club Rastrick Common Brighouse Calderdale HD6 3EL
Received 19 Aug 2026Cross Gap Farm Cross Stone Road Todmorden Calderdale OL14 8RG
Received 20 Aug 20266 Maryville Avenue Brighouse Calderdale HD6 2NX
Received 20 Aug 2026Land South West Of 4 Wool Croft Old Town Mill Lane Old Town Hebden Bridge Calderdale
Received 21 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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