PRIME HUDDERSFIELD REDEVELOPMENT - Residential/Care/Office/Medical (former General Infirmary & College Campus) - Part cleared site

Key Points

• 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
• Sale of c. 3 acres contracted with Lidl
• Plot 1 - 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)
• Opportunity to explore Brownfield Housing Fund grant - previous app was approved by WYCA
• Land owner commenced 9 month demolition and enabling works contract - cleared site to be delivered mid summer 2023

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 + Listed Building consent (2018/65/92687/W) also secured 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.
Landowner commenced 9 month demolition and enabling works contract November 2022, to create serviced development plots.
A sale of c.3 acres is contracted with Lidl who are expected to be on site in summer 2023 with a possible store opening around end 2023.
The two plots are available either separately or together:

Plot 1 - Full planning permission for restoration and conversion of Listed building and its wings to create 32 residential apartments and 10,785 ft2 of offices. The office space would be suitable for a range of uses but also potential exists to revise the planning to achieve 47 apartments (subject to planning). A sizeable package of urgent repair works to this phase will be undertaken as part of the enabling works contract.

Plot 2 - c.1.73 acre site with outline planning permission for up to 197 residential apartments or offices will be sold as a cleared development site, with the developer needing to deliver access from Portland Street.

0% affordable housing and no S.106 obligations associated with either full / outline permission and the benefit would be passed to the successful purchaser.
Opportunity to explore Brownfield Housing Fund grant. A previous application was made and in principle grant approved by WYCA. The site has since been put onto the reserve list because a grant approval cannot be traded and a new application by the developer is needed.

Available area

The accommodation comprises the following areas:

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).