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Bob Melling
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Low Salience, Huddersfield
Proverbs 7:7
West Yorkshire print workshop has a temporary space in Huddersfield at the moment and often has exhibitions.

wypw.org/huddersfield/
Huddersfield - West Yorkshire Print Workshop
Our sister site  to the original still based in Mirfield, will host exhibitions, events, young people’s printmaking workshops, printmaking facilities and studio space for artists.  Huddersfield Openin...
wypw.org
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Maybe check if the sovereign design house gallery has any exhibitions on. It's in a odd Dudokish renovated foundry bathhouse on Queen street south there's a cafe with an exhibition space below. www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_R...
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January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
The New town (19thc grid below the station square) has some exceptional streetscape.
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Massive redevelopment going on ATM which means the library/gallery has closed and the TBH the whole town centre feels like it's been mothballed for the duration
ourculturalheart.co.uk/what-youll-f...
I'd go to the Byram arcade, Heritage Quay in the university often has interesting exhibitions.
What you'll find here - Our Cultural Heart
What you'll find at Our Cultural Heart, Huddersfield.
ourculturalheart.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
In Halifax this doesn't work because the Acca has been going for circa 400 years.
January 17, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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S106 just shouldn’t exist. Symptom of broken discretionary planning system. MSA MDCs and/or Master Developers should be buying the land for new towns/extensions, zoning for growth, sorting out the master plan, building the roads/sewers etc and selling off the plots. Allocates risk so much better.
January 17, 2026 at 11:44 AM
The discretionary nature of Section 106 really isn't fit for purpose. Surely a fixed development tax paid to councils would avoid proposals that are "unviable" if they have to cover costs even going to planning.
January 17, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Suspect some of this is based on "look at the Reform councils hitting reality" without taking account of how much of that is about the imbalance of power between central and local government.

If they have parliament where is the constraint?
January 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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2/2 ...and natural flood management to benefit our customers and local communities. We are delighted to be working with Moors for the Future Partnership to achieve our shared vision for the next 5 years".

Read the press release: www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/the-latest
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January 16, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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The next person who complains that "Kirklees was never part of Huddersfield" can go suck on the fact that the voters of Clifton (inc. Sir George Armytage of Kirklees) were within the 1848 Huddersfield Polling District 😜
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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After years in limbo since Rishi Sunak cut HS2 in 2023, NPR is finally properly defined again.

The government has committed £45bn across three phases, with backing from Northern mayors.

With the right planning and work, this should be a foundation for real action.

2/9
January 15, 2026 at 8:59 AM