Bid to turn a former mill into seven new homes

Plans have been submitted to Calderdale Council to turn a former mill building in West Vale into seven new homes.

Calderbrook Estates Limited is seeking planning permission to make the changes, converting a mill building used as a warehouse and an existing home at Wm Woods Exors Limited at Lambert Street.

The proposal is to form seven homes across the whole site, says a heritage statement prepared for the applicant by chartered architectural technologist Jason B Wade.

The site is a former textile mill of three storeys constructed from natural stone walls with a stone slate roof.

Until 2023, it hd been used to manufacture car parts for pre-war vintage cars.

The main mill building connects into a house that was occupied by the owner until 2023.

The house was originally four separate ‘one up and one down’ homes but has been merged into one dwelling sometime in the past.

The site also has some single-storey annexe buildings used until recently as a commercial garage and associated store rooms, with one section two-storey and obviously three separate dwellings when first built.

The new homes will be achieved by splitting the existing house into two houses, while the three-storey mill section will become three flats.

The former terraced houses will become two new houses with the addition of a small ‘cat slide’ extension.

The single-storey workshop buildings will be demolished to form amenity space and car parking.

For the most part the external appearance of the group of building will not change.