Water treatment works plans to be presented

Updated plans for the redevelopment of a former water treatment works site in West Yorkshire are set to be presented later this week.Keyland Developments, the property trading arm of Kelda Group and sister company to Yorkshire Water, sold the North Bierley Water Treatment Works site to Opus North for an undisclosed sum earlier this year (September 2019).Keyland secured planning consent last year from Kirklees Council to redevelop the site, which has been redundant for almost 20 years, into a commercial development of about 400,000 sq ft of industrial and employment space.The plans to be presented to Kirklees Council’s Strategic Planning Committee on 21 November propose a change in the phasing of the development with the initial phase of work to focus on the development of units 1 and 2.The applicant is seeking the discharge of conditions and reserved matters approval required to enable the development of this first phase of development, including the relevant enabling works.It is also proposed that the enabling works for the entire site begin as soon as possible, ahead of the construction of Unit 1 and the access road.Committee members will be asked for their views on whether the proposed strategy of submitting a reserved matters application for part of the site and a parallel discharge of conditions application to allow enabling works across the whole site is appropriate.