HUDDERSFIELD TOWN CENTRE REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY – LAST REMAINING PLOT 1.54 ACRES

Key Points

• Plot 2 available for Sale
• Substantial demolition and remediation completed to provide these 'ready to go' plots
• 0% affordable housing and no S. 106 obligations associated with outline permission & benefit will be passed to successful purchaser
• Town centre redevelopment with hybrid planning secured
• Plot 1: SOLD - Full Planning permission in place (32 apartments plus c. 10,000 sq ft NIA offices)
• Plot 2: Outline Planning in place and approved height & massing parameters (up to 197 apartments) / 127,461 sq ft NIA)
• Plot 3: Acquired by Lidl – Food store under construction
• 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
• 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 + 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. SOLD
Outline planning: up to 197 new build apartments or offices, with a total development capacity of 131,512 ft2 (GEA) with parameter plans.

S.73 Planning approval (2023/70/93058/W) secured on 22/2/24 permits a variation of the consents to facilitate reuse of an existing access road from New North Road.

Landowner has taken practical completion of the site following a substantial demolition and enabling works contract, creating 2 ready-to-go development opportunities.

A Freehold sale of c.3 acres has completed with Lidl, and store is under construction.

A Freehold sale of Plot 1 (1.79 acres) with full planning has now also completed to a local business owner. It 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.

The remaining plot available is outlined below:

Plot 2 – c.1.54 acre site with original outline planning permission, and approved height and massing parameters for up to 197 residential apartments within class C3 (or offices) offered as a cleared development site.

The recent S.73 approved variation for Plot 2 involves reopening of an original access which wasn’t envisaged at the time of the original outline and any subsequent planning submission will involve ‘remassing’ part of the approval from the northeast to the western elevation to facilitate the new access arrangements (as indicated on updated masterplan).

0% affordable housing and no outstanding S.106 obligations associated with outline permission and the benefit will be passed to the purchaser(s).

Potential exists to split Plot 2, given existing access points (subject to consent).

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).