14-18 King Street, Huddersfield

14-18 King Street, Huddersfield.

Change of use and external alterations to form 9 apartments.

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Comments made on behalf of Huddersfield Civic Society

Compared to a recent spate of minimum standard and meanly designed residential conversions in the town centre (for example current application 2021/93442, 50 New Street), this application has merits in providing much improved space standards combined with improvements to the external appearance of an early 1970s building of no architectural merit and at odds with the overall elevational appearance of the street.

The addition of accommodation on a new third floor is supported as is the integration of solar power. The room sizes and configurations are reasonable, including inset terraces for each of the new top floor flats.

The only issue which has to be addressed (as with all the recent applications for residential conversions in the centre), is the question of waste disposal and integration of waste facilities within the street scene.
Huddersfield Civic Society supports this proposal.