# 2 Bridge Street, Batley

- **Decision:** dismissed, 26 August 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: K Mee
- **Authority:** Kirklees (Yorkshire and the Humber)
- **Appeal reference:** 6005744
- **Application reference:** 2025/93525
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Class MA prior approval, ground-floor commercial to 4 flats
- **Homes:** 4
- **Site context:** inside-settlement
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** No Framework version cited
- **Determinative policies:** P3(2)(a)
- **Main issues:** natural light
- **Tags:** tier-2, class-ma, prior-approval, natural-light, framework-not-cited

## Summary
Class MA prior approval for four ground-floor flats was refused because one bedroom would have no window. New openings proposed under a separate planning application could not be assumed. The Framework is not cited.

## What made the difference
Class MA does not authorise external alterations. Natural light has to be judged on the building as it stands unless the other works are secured (DL ¶¶6, 9–10).

## Policy findings
- **P3(2)(a): fail.** Framework not cited; GPDO W.(2A) natural-light test. Bedroom in flat 4 has no window; new openings under separate unimplemented application cannot be assumed (DL 9-12)

## Key facts
- External alterations relied on a separate application (2025/93526) with no evidence it was granted and no mechanism to secure it first

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/a5a47ca0-8615-4525-8e01-463731c8e525
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6005744

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