We want the best for Huddersfield while protecting and celebrating its heritage

Welcome

Huddersfield Civic Society has a great pride in the town and we do all we can to promote it as a great place to live, work and play.

We liaise closely with Kirklees Council on any major developments, comment on planning applications and are not afraid to be critical or highlight problems when we feel it’s needed.

We care passionately about this town and its people and will do all we can to protect its buildings, culture and heritage while realising that life moves on and things change.

Huddersfield people look back and regret town planning decisions in the past. We are here to scrutinise every proposal to ensure that any changes must now enhance what we already have.

So, if you care as much as we do why not join us as a member.

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St Peter's Gardens in Huddersfield town centre
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HCS responds to Huddersfield Town Centre Conservation Area plan

The Civic Society has responded to a mayor consultancy report concerning Huddersfield Town Centre Conservation Area. The appraisal and management plan, produced after the area was identified by Historic England as being at risk  with the 2021 register describing the condition of the Conservation Area as ‘very bad’ and in a ‘deteriorating condition.’ The detailed report…

Great demand for local Huddersfield history book … and people are urged to help with the next one
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Great demand for local Huddersfield history book … and people are urged to help with the next one

A local history book has proved to be so popular it’s been reprinted for a third time and its author is now on with another book but needs people’s help with it. The Villas of Edgerton, written bylocal historian David Griffiths, was first published in 2017 and subtitled Home To Huddersfield’s Victorian Elite. It details…