| Property Type |
Development / Residential |
| Tenure |
For Sale |
| Size |
30,683 to 158,144 sq ft |
| Business Rates |
Upon Enquiry |
| Energy Performance Rating |
This property has been set as EPC exempt.
Reason: Currently being constructed or undergoing major refurbishment |
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY – LAST REMAINING PLOT c.0.59 Acres.
Key Points
- Plot 2B available for Sale (Plot 2A now Under Offer)
- Completion of a substantial demolition and remediation contract to provide these 'ready to go' plots
- 0% affordable housing and no S. 106 obligations associated with either full / outline permission & benefit will be passed to successful purchaser
- Town centre redevelopment with hybrid planning secured
- Plot 1 NOW SOLD - Full Planning permission in place (32 apartments plus c. 10,000 sq ft NIA offices)
- Plot 2 - Outline Planning in place (up to 197 apartments) / 127,461 sq ft NIA)
- Positive recent public funding announcements made for Huddersfield (Investment Zone Funding & Levelling Up Funds)
Description
Former Kirklees College and Huddersfield General Infirmary site.
Prime 6.1 acre mixed-use development site on the edge of Huddersfield Town Centre.
Hybrid planning approval (2018/62/92647/W) secured on 03/08/2022
Full planning: 21,500 ft2 food store, and conversion of Listed Building and its wings to create 32 apartments and 10,785 ft2 of offices.
Outline planning: up to 197 new build apartments or offices, with a total development capacity of 131,512 ft2 (GEA) with parameter plans (height, massing, parking, etc).
S.73 Planning approval (2023/70/93058/W) secured on 22/2/24 permits a variation of the consented plans to facilitate reuse of an existing access road from New North Road. Updated master plan can be found on the next page.
Landowner has now taken practical completion of the site following a substantial demolition and enabling works contract, creating a development opportunity (subject to detailed planning consent).
A Freehold sale of c.3 acres has completed with Lidl, and store delivery is expected to commence soon.
A Freehold sale of Plot 1 (1.79 acres) with full planning has now also completed with a local business owner. Plot 1 was sold with full planning permission for restoration and conversion of a Listed building and its wings to create 32 residential apartments and 10,785 ft2 for offices.
Plot 2A (c. 1 acre) is Under Offer
Plot 2B (0.59 acres) – Available (with the benefit of the parameters set within the outline planning consent across the whole of Plot 2 – see above details)
Plot 2B currently has income under a 12-month licence agreement with Network Rail to use the plot as a temporary car park. The licence terminates December 2025.
0% affordable housing and only limited outstanding S.106 obligations associated with either full / outline permission and the benefit will be passed to the purchaser(s).
Available area
The accommodation comprises the following areas:
| Building - 1 |
Office |
10,785 |
1,001.96 |
Sold |
| Building - 2 |
Residential |
11,782 |
1,094.58 |
Sold |
| Building - 3 |
Residential |
8,116 |
754 |
Sold |
| Ground - Plot 2A |
Development |
43,560 |
4,046.86 |
Under Offer |
| Ground - Plot 2B |
Development |
25,700.40 |
2,387.65 |
Available |
| Total |
|
99,943.40 |
9,285.05 |
|
Location
Huddersfield is the principal town of Kirklees, West Yorkshire and is ideally located between the Leeds City Region, Greater Manchester and Sheffield. The site is located in a highly prominent gateway position at the entrance to the Town Centre and on the West side of the A62 ring road at its major junction with the A640, A62 and New North Road.
Huddersfield is supported by a strong road and rail network:
Road - Junctions 24 & 25 of the M62 are within a 10-minute drive of the site.
Rail - Huddersfield Station is within a 7-minute walk of the site and provides direct rail services to Leeds (in 19 mins), Manchester (in 35 mins)
and Sheffield (in 1 hour 16 mins).
