Former Spenborough Wastewater Treatment Works, Smithies Lane, Heckmondwike, WF16 0PN

Planning appeal 3330267 at Former Spenborough Wastewater Treatment Works, Smithies Lane, Heckmondwike, WF16 0PN (Kirklees Metropolitan Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 17 September 2025 by Inspector Thompson F, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control, having regard to the omission of residential use as a component of the mixed-use.

without the benefit of planning permission, the material change of use of the site to a mixed-use comprising educational, public events use, the keeping of animals and storage (including but not limited to containers, lorry backs, metal sheeting, metal beams, wooden pallets, cannisters, building materials, vehicles and plant/machinery); and operational development consisting of the erection of 15 buildings, the erection of fencing, the formation of hard surfaces (car parking area), erection of a bridge and engineering operations to create a pond to facilitate the mixed-use

Authority: Kirklees Metropolitan Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Change of use
Inspector: Thompson F
Postcode: WF16 0PN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the enforcement notice specifies with sufficient clarity the alleged breach of planning control, having regard to the omission of residential use as a component of the mixed-use

What decided it

The enforcement notice failed to specify the alleged breach with sufficient clarity by omitting residential use as a component of the mixed-use, and the defect could not be corrected without causing injustice to one party or the other.

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