Merchant Fields News Today

Controversial plans for almost 300 homes in Cleckheaton have seen the developer apply to change the design of every house on the site.

Almost 300 new houses are to be built on farmland in Cleckheaton following a decision by a planning committee.

A CONTROVERSIAL scheme for almost 300 homes will be back before planners again - after further revisions to the number of houses.

PLANS for 287 homes on farmland in Cleckheaton are being recommended for approval - but there has already been a request to call the decision in.

FRESH plans have been lodged in a further bid to build almost 300 homes on 30 acres of farmland in Cleckheaton.

GOVERNMENT planning reforms aimed at speeding up permissions for new developments will be “disastrous”, according to Labour in Kirklees. The Lib Dems say democracy will be “stripped out of the process” and that neither the public nor local councillors who represent them will have a say when already weakened safeguards are killed off. Both Labour and the Lib Dems have urged local MPs to oppose the bill. But local Tories say the government’s proposals represent an opportunity fo...

PLANS to build almost 400 homes across two former green belt sites in Cleckheaton are being recommended for approval this week. Both the site at Merchant Fields in Hunsworth, and Whitechapel Road, were earmarked for development in Kirklees Councils Local Plan for development in 2019. The larger of the two sites, Merchant Fields, involves a scheme for 267 homes by Harron Homes, and more than 100 residents have objected to it. In the plans, Harron Homes said the site would “create a sus...