75, Birkby Lodge Road, Birkby

Application 2023/62/91320/W along with 2023/65/91477/W (click on application number to go to full application on Kirklees planning website)

75, Birkby Lodge Road, Birkby.

Demolition of existing side extension and erection of replacement single storey side and rear extensions with associated alterations of Grade II listed building (within a Conservation Area).

Huddersfield Civic Society note the applications but would ask that a proper heritage statement be submitted. The brief opinion given is limited. The plans make quite substantive changes to what is a listed building with substantive changes including an oddly-shaped ground-floor extension which upsets the shape and profile of the property. Hopefully this level of HIA for listed buildings does not become normalised going forward.