Kirklees Development Plan
We have launched our Kirklees Local Plan Early Engagement to help shape an updated Local Plan. This will run from 25 November 2024 to 28 February 2025. Your views will:
- help us to shape a vision and objectives
- identify what you consider to be the main challenges and opportunities in planning for the future of Kirklees.
Please complete our Early Engagement Local Plan survey
ClockThis survey will take around 15 minutes to complete.
Paperclip To complete this survey you are advised to read Shaping a new Local Plan Early Engagement.
Complete the Early Engagement surveyAfter you've completed the survey
After you have completed the survey your responses will be used to inform a second stage. This is planned for April or May 2025. We will feed back on what you said, and outline our Local Plan vision, strategy and objectives and the scale and distribution of growth for jobs and homes.
Other ways to complete the survey
The online survey is our preferred method of submitting your comments as this helps us with the analysis of responses.
However, as an alternative you can download the Kirklees Local Plan Early Engagement Survey to complete and submit by email to: Email local.development@kirklees.gov.uk.
Help to complete the online survey
Please contact Emaillocal.development@kirklees.gov.uk.
Updating our Local Plan
When the current Kirklees Local Plan was first adopted in 2019, Kirklees Council committed to reviewing the plan within five years, to ensure it was still fit for purpose. The following years saw the announcement of the Climate Emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic, and great impact on the local and national economy. When the council undertook this review last year, it was determined that the Local Plan would require a full update, taking into account these major changes as well as updating housing supply, employment land delivery, the supply of jobs and climate change.
The Local Plan was reviewed over Summer 2023 and the outcomes are set out in the cabinet report 17th October 2023
Why we are updating the Kirklees Local Plan
- To ensure that our Local Plan is up-to-date as it forms the main tool for assessing planning applications.
- To develop more ambitious climate change policies to support the council's Climate Change Action Plan and ambition of being net zero and climate ready by 2038.
- To deliver a vision for Kirklees up to 2043.
- To set out how and where development will be located together with associated infrastructure. We must set out a strategy to deliver housing and employment requirements to provide for the needs of our residents and businesses. This includes identifying a five-year supply of specific deliverable housing sites to meet the district's housing needs and land for employment to create job opportunities.
- To produce locally distinctive planning policies which support sustainable communities and places.
- To make sure our Local Plan is in keeping with national planning policy. This is set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
We are asking residents to give their views on what they would like to see in our new Local Plan, which, once adopted, will govern how all planning applications are assessed. As we move forward with this feedback, there will be more opportunities to shape both individual elements and the Local Plan as a whole.
The purpose of a Local Plan
The Kirklees Local Plan will set the planning policy framework for the district, guiding future growth and change over the period 2024-2043. It sets out:
- A vision and strategic objectives for development within Kirklees (particularly for new housing and employment).
- How and where different levels of development will be located (site allocations).
- A suite of planning policies to guide decisions on planning applications.
- Designations showing land to be protected/safeguarded (such as local green spaces, priority employment areas).
- Infrastructure provision to support the delivery of development.
- A monitoring framework to review the plan's success.
About the Kirklees Development Plan
The Kirklees Development Plan consists of the Kirklees Local Plan and, in applicable areas, the Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan.
Planning applications must be determined in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise.
Information about emerging Neighbourhood Development Plans can also be found at Neighbourhood planning
Kirklees Local Plan
The Kirklees Local Plan was adopted on 27 February 2019. It comprises the strategy and policies document, allocations and designations document and associated policies map.
Local Plan strategy and policies
Kirklees Local Plan strategy and policies - Adopted 27 February 2019
Kirklees Local Plan strategy and policies - Adopted 27 February 2019 (HTML)
Local Plan allocations and designations
Site reference numbers used in the draft plan were changed on adoption and the council has produced a guide to the changes made to site reference numbers in the adopted Local Plan. For further information see: New Local Plan Site IDs
Background documents can be viewed in the Examination Library
Kirklees Local Plan allocations and designations - Adopted 27 February 2019
Kirklees Local Plan allocations and designations - Adopted 27 February 2019 (HTML)
Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan
The Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan (HVNDP) covers the Holme Valley Parish Council area including the area within the Peak District National Park and was successful at referendum on 4 November 2021. The Neighbourhood Plan was subsequently made (brought into force) by Kirklees Council on 8th December 2021 and by the Peak District National Park Authority on 10th December 2021.
The HVNDP comprises the policies document and associated designations. The HVNDP divides the neighbourhood area geographically into eight Landscape Character Areas where different policy considerations apply. The HVNDP designates four sites as Local Green Space and identifies individual buildings and structures to which new policy relating to their value as heritage assets now applies. For more information concerning the HVNDP process see: Neighbourhood planning
Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) 2021-2031 - Made Plan - December 2021
Development Plan policies map
On the interactive policies map you can find a place of interest using a postcode. To view all Local Plan and Neighbourhood Development Plan allocations and designations please ensure all layers are switched on using the legend. The interactive map also shows designated Neighbourhood Areas. Further information about emerging Neighbourhood Development Plans can be found on Neighbourhood planning.
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Hard copies
Printed versions of the made Holme Valley Neighbourhood Development Plan (December 2021) can be requested. The HVNDP neighbourhood boundary map, which shows the area divided into the eight Landscape Character Areas, is also available as a printed copy at A3 size.
Hard copy versions of the Kirklees Local Plan documents and Local Plan policies maps are available to purchase. Please email the planning policy team with details of your order to: Email local.development@kirklees.gov.uk
| Cost (collection) | Cost (1st class) | Cost (2nd class) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full set (2 x A4 documents and 6 maps) | £34 | £46.90 | £41.80 |
| 1 x A4 document | £11 | £17.45 | £14.90 |
| 1 x Local Plan Policies Map | £2 | £3.45 | £3.22 |
| Set of six Local Plan Policies Maps | £12 | £14.73 | £14.35 |
Low resolution Local Plan Policies Maps
High resolution Local Plan Policies Maps
Previous Local Plan consultations, examination and adoption information
Prior to submitting our Local Plan, there were a number of consultations on the emerging Local Plan. There were public hearings as part of the examination of the Kirklees Local Plan. After these the appointed inspectors invited the council to consult on a list of Proposed Modifications (October 2018) to make the plan sound and/or legally compliant. The council then received the inspector's report.
You can view all the comments we received using the Kirklees Planning Consultation Portal All of these comments were sent to the relevant Planning Inspector. Details of the adoption process, Inspector's report, examination library and previous formal consultation periods:
- Local Plan Adoption Statement
- Sustainability Appraisal Post-Adoption Statement
- Inspector's report and modifications
- Examination library and examination news
- Proposed Modifications Consultations, at October 2018
- Publication Local Plan for consultation, as at December 2016
- Draft Local Plan for consultation, as at November 2015
- Sustainability appraisal scoping
- Local Plan early engagement