Kirklees Regeneration & Investment Briefing

Funding, places and delivery. A briefing for the organisations bringing forward homes and regeneration across Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Batley, Cleckheaton and Mirfield.

Dates and decisions to watch

Figures in this briefing cover different programmes, geographies and periods. They should not be added into a single borough investment total.

The funding landscape

Up to £46 billion over ten years

Homes England and its subsidiary, the National Housing Bank, have up to £46 billion to deploy across England to 2036. These are the principal streams. [1]

The joint Investment Prospectus, published on 31 March 2026 ahead of the Bank's opening on 1 April, brings grant, land and finance into one framework. The Bank aims to attract more than £50 billion of additional private capital over the decade.

*The prospectus describes the agency's share as £3.1bn, subject to final confirmation. These are programme envelopes, not a ring-fenced allocation to Kirklees.

Programme milestones

Grant, land and finance (products and routes)

Which support fits a scheme depends less on its size than on what is holding it up: a funding gap, a difficult site, or the tenure of the homes to be delivered. [1]

Two grant routes in West Yorkshire. Land, infrastructure and remediation money is increasingly expected to flow through WYCA's integrated settlement (the Brownfield Housing Fund and the West Yorkshire Housing Investment Fund) rather than national competitions. Social and Affordable Homes Programme grant remains administered by Homes England. The National Housing Bank makes its own finance decisions while working alongside the agency. [1,50]

Regional routes: West Yorkshire

Regional routes: see regions/west-yorkshire.md for the Combined Authority's devolved housing and land funds, the integrated settlement, the West Yorkshire Mass Transit Spatial Development Framework, the Leeds Mayoral Development Zone, the SAHP first-wave regional position and the regional skills offer. West Yorkshire has no Mayoral Development Corporation; its one mayoral vehicle is the Leeds-focused Mayoral Development Zone, which does not cover Kirklees. [regions/west-yorkshire.md]

For a Kirklees scheme, the first conversation depends on the funding gap. A regional headline figure is not a borough award.

Kirklees is named on the regional page as the host of one of WYHIF's four garden-community beneficiaries (a c.3,000-home ambition), which the regional page and local reporting both associate with Dewsbury Riverside — the same site named separately in the West Yorkshire Strategic Place Partnership. These are ambitions and priority-site designations, not confirmed scheme-level allocations. [regions/west-yorkshire.md,28]

Who decides what (decisions and public contacts)

1. Homes England / National Housing Bank — Final SAHP funding and contractual decisions; the Bank assesses its finance investments; co-signatory with WYCA to the West Yorkshire Strategic Place Partnership. [1,18,28]
2. West Yorkshire Combined Authority — Regional priorities; Brownfield Housing Fund and West Yorkshire Housing Investment Fund; the Mass Transit SDF; not a corporation, holds no separate Kirklees allocation. [see regions/west-yorkshire.md]
3. Kirklees Council — Local housing need, planning authority, council land at Dewsbury Riverside, Bradley Park, Soothill and Fenay Lane; accountable body for the Dewsbury Pride in Place programme. [4,7,12,14]
4. Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board — Chaired by Sophie Johnson; sets the Dewsbury Regeneration Plan and Investment Plan; council accountability and national programme rules still apply. [7,9]
5. Development and delivery partners — Keepmoat Homes (Soothill), Housing 21 and Robertson Construction (Kenmore Drive), and the master developer to be appointed for Dewsbury Riverside. [12,15,16]

Public routes for the next conversation

A useful first enquiry names the site, landowner, proposed use, delivery lead, funding gap and next decision.

Accessing programme grant: a route for smaller providers

• Continuous Market Engagement — Open for individual schemes and portfolios while funding remains available. Designed to accommodate smaller partners, new entrants and complex projects. [19]
• Strategic partnerships — Programme-level allocations. The initial bidding round closed on 15 April 2026; future rounds will be announced. [18]

Before a grant application

Organisations need Homes England Investment Partner qualification to receive grant. Homes England's published strategic priorities for established mayoral strategic authority areas — which include West Yorkshire — seek a Social Rent weighting, brownfield and town-centre locations, low-carbon homes, council-led or community-led delivery, and West Yorkshire Fair Work Charter commitments. [21]

Kirklees's own affordable-housing policy requirement is 20% on qualifying sites; the council's Housing Growth Update reporting on named disposals (for example Fenay Lane) describes Registered Provider bids as expected to deliver "significantly above" that 20% baseline. [17,26]

Places and programmes (borough programmes)

Dewsbury Riverside — the district's largest allocation, up to 4,000 homes

Dewsbury Riverside is the largest single allocation in the Kirklees Local Plan: a 160-hectare site with capacity for up to 4,000 homes, community infrastructure and open space. The council owns just under 20% of the site, including a key point of access; the other principal landowner is the Savile Estate. Council and Savile Estate land together is reported able to deliver approximately 1,988 homes; the wider allocation's long-run capacity is separately reported at around 2,500 homes over 15–20 years. These are different sub-totals for different ownership slices of the same site and should not be added together. [10,12,28]

Planning permission was granted in August 2023 for the main access road and a first phase of 350 homes, expected to complete by 2030. The council is procuring a master developer, with a council-identified public sector viability-gap funding requirement of £60–70m.

The procurement, from the primary notice. Find a Tender pipeline notice 2025/S 000-027949 (council reference KMCHG-026), published 28 May 2025, sets out the shape of the appointment: a competitive flexible procedure, above threshold, with the tender notice estimated for 1 September 2025 and the contract estimated to run 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2030 — a four-year master-developer contract, not a one-off disposal. The scope is masterplan and phasing strategy, land assembly, planning, infrastructure delivery and site servicing, marketing of serviced land, funding strategy, stewardship arrangements, social value and community engagement. The notice confirms from a primary source that Kirklees Council and the Savile Estate are "progressing the delivery process together under a Collaboration Agreement" and that those two ownerships "can deliver approximately 1,988 homes". Contracting contact: procurement@kirklees.gov.uk, The Town Hall, Ramsden Street, Huddersfield HD1 2TA. [40]

Award status remains open. No contract award notice for KMCHG-026 was found on Find a Tender at 19 September 2026, and the Kirklees committee pages that carry the Dewsbury Riverside decisions could not be retrieved (see Research notes). Whether the master developer has been appointed is therefore still not verified, nearly six months after the estimated contract start. [12,40]

Dewsbury Riverside is named as a priority site in the West Yorkshire Strategic Place Partnership between WYCA, Homes England and the five district councils, and the site will benefit from the TransPennine Route Upgrade and a proposed new station. [10,12,28]

Bradley Park — around 2,000 homes, tied to the Cooper Bridge road scheme

A 60-hectare council-led allocation at Bradley Park Golf Course, including land at the privately owned Bradley Villa Farm, with capacity reported at around 2,000 homes; a first phase of 474 homes was the largest single-development figure in the council's 2024 delivery-plan breakdown, with 750 homes expected on site by 2030. Cabinet has released £800,000 for preparatory work, strategic property acquisitions are under way, and delivery depends on the A62 Leeds Road to Cooper Bridge road scheme, which was forecast in January 2026 at £94m — £20m over its earlier budget, prompting a phased approach starting with the Cooper Bridge roundabout. These figures come from a 2024 council scrutiny report; not verified as still current at September 2026. [13,14]

Soothill, Batley — 319 homes, due to complete March 2026

A council-owned former mining site let to Keepmoat Homes under a 2021 Agreement for Lease, branded "The Orchards": 319 homes, the majority using modern methods of construction, with a £4.59m Homes England Accelerated Construction Programme grant. Affordable provision has increased through successive bulk transfers to Registered Providers; Homes England approved a further 19-unit transfer on 30 January 2026, taking the affordable total to 136 of 319 homes. The scheme was due to complete in March 2026; completion is not verified as at 19 September 2026. [15]

Kenmore Drive, Cleckheaton — 80-bed extra care, Housing 21

An affordable extra-care scheme and public open space delivered between Kirklees Council and Housing 21, built by Robertson Construction: 80 apartments (61 one-bed, 19 two-bed), all for social rent, at a reported £20m cost. An earlier contractor's insolvency delayed the scheme; a topping-out milestone was reached and completion was forecast for spring/summer 2026. Completion is not verified as at 19 September 2026. [16]

Fenay Lane, Almondbury — 157 homes, land disposal to a Registered Provider

A council-owned site expected to deliver 157 homes by 2030; cabinet approved disposal to a Homes England Registered Provider through a competitive land sale, with affordable provision expected significantly above the council's 20% requirement. Figures are from the council's 2024 scrutiny reporting; not verified as still current. [13,17]

Town-centre living — Huddersfield and Dewsbury

The council's 2024 delivery-plan reporting separately identified 253 further homes from town-centre living projects: 53 in Huddersfield and 200 in Dewsbury. Named schemes and current status are not verified in the sources checked for this brief. [13]

Pride in Place: the Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board

Kirklees has one Pride in Place neighbourhood: Dewsbury. It traces back to the 2023 Long Term Plan for Towns programme, carried through the 2025 rebrand and now sitting inside the national Pride in Place programme.

Phase checked directly against all three primary lists. MHCLG's phase 1 place-selection methodology note lists "Yorkshire and The Humber | Kirklees | Dewsbury" among the 75 phase 1 towns. Dewsbury does not appear on the phase 2 methodology note (160 boards, plans due 30 November 2026) or on the phase 2 expansion note published 20 March 2026 (40 additional boards, plans due 26 February 2027) — both checked directly and neither lists a Kirklees or Dewsbury entry. Kirklees therefore has no second Pride in Place neighbourhood and the 30 November 2026 and 26 February 2027 plan deadlines that bind phase 2 and expansion places do not apply to Dewsbury, which is already in year 1 of delivery. [35,36,37]

Pride in Place Impact Fund — no Kirklees allocation found

Checked directly against both GOV.UK determinations' Annex A tables in full. Each Annex A lists 94 local authorities — 93 at £750,000 and one at £1,500,000, £71.25m nationally each year. Kirklees does not appear in Annex A of either the 2025/26 determination (signed 29 September 2025) or the 2026/27 determination (signed 8 April 2026); the alphabetical run from Kingston upon Hull to Knowsley to Leicester confirms no Kirklees entry in either list. No Kirklees Impact Fund allocation or target area has been identified; among West Yorkshire's five councils, Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds and Wakefield were not separately checked for this brief. [10,11]

Bring a project that can be delivered

• Need, ownership and consent — Who benefits, land control, delivery lead, consents and dependencies.
• Capital and continuing costs — Works, contingency, asset owner, operating budget and maintenance.

National delivery guidance requires Pride in Place boards to have at least eight members, with at least 51% living or working locally. [29,30]

Local investment and project calls: different pots, different decisions

Do not add these figures together. They are different programmes, geographies and periods, and several fund activity around different town centres in the same borough.

Homes, partners and local need

Housing register and need

Kirklees Council's housing waiting list has been reported at over 19,000 households, up from around 6,500 in earlier reporting; the more recent figure is press-reported and not verified against a current council publication. The council's Strategic Housing Market Assessment sets the current Local Plan requirement at 1,730 homes a year, of which 1,049 need to be affordable; the revised standard method under the government's new plan-making system is reported to raise this to 1,917 homes a year (press) or 1,927 (a regional consultancy analysis cited on the regional page); neither figure is verified against a primary MHCLG or council table, and the two are not reconciled here. The council opened a new Local Plan consultation in August 2026 to respond to this gap. [5,6,26]

Council housing stock and capital programme

As at October 2025, the council reported just over 21,500 council homes. Cabinet has approved a five-year, £390m Housing Capital Investment Plan for the council's own stock. Scope split between decarbonisation, retention and new build is not verified in the sources checked for this brief. [26]

Affordable housing policy

Kirklees's adopted affordable-housing policy sets a 20% requirement on qualifying sites; a draft Affordable Housing and Housing Mix Supplementary Planning Document was in consultation during the period covered by this brief. Registered Provider bids for council-disposed sites (for example Fenay Lane) are described by the council as expected to deliver "significantly above" the 20% baseline. [17,26]

Named local delivery

These are examples of local activity, not a complete provider list or evidence of a new SAHP award. One of the 33 first-wave SAHP strategic partners does appear above: Thirteen Housing Group Limited (£349.2m of grant and 2,750 homes in the first wave, at the £350m cap), reported by the council as delivering 100% affordable homes on five Kirklees sites. Together Housing Association Limited (£326.6m / 3,200 homes), the other first-wave partner with a large Kirklees and Calderdale footprint, is not named on a Kirklees scheme in the sources checked. Neither fact is evidence of a Kirklees SAHP award: the first-wave partner table is a national envelope with no site or borough breakdown, and Thirteen's Kirklees scheme names and homes numbers remain not verified. [2,26]

Delivery and the supply chain

Finding the actual route to work

Kirklees Council's own procurement page, re-checked directly on 19 September 2026, confirms it advertises tender opportunities on the e-tendering portal YORtender, and that the council's contracts register is accessible via the same portal. Unlike Leeds (Jaggaer) and Bradford (migrating to Atamis), Kirklees remains a straightforward YORtender council. [22]

Forward pipeline. The council publishes a procurement pipeline roughly twice a year, in April and October; the current version is the Procurement Pipeline September 2026, available as CSV and Excel from the same page. Under the Procurement Act 2023 the council also publishes formal Pipeline Notices on Find a Tender for projects above £2 million. The council's caveat is worth repeating to a client: listed projects "represent potential tendering opportunities and are not guaranteed", and estimated dates and values are subject to change. Procurement contact: procurement@kirklees.gov.uk. [22,40]

A funding announcement does not itself create an open invitation to tender. At Dewsbury Riverside, the master developer procurement itself is being run through Find a Tender / the council's own OJEU-successor routes; supply-chain work that follows will flow through the appointed developer's own procurement, not a further council tender. [12]

Skills and delivery capacity

Kirklees College delivers construction training from the Brunel Construction Centre, Old Fieldhouse Lane, Leeds Road, Huddersfield HD2 1AG: bricklaying, electrical, plastering, plumbing and joinery, alongside a wider adult and apprenticeship course offer. Contact: 01484 437 141 · info@kirkleescollege.ac.uk. [39]

The regional Construction Technical Excellence College for Yorkshire and the Humber is hosted by Leeds College of Building; Kirklees College is one of the natural sub-regional delivery partners named on the regional page, but a published CTEC partner list naming Kirklees College specifically is not verified. See regions/west-yorkshire.md for the full regional CTEC detail. [regions/west-yorkshire.md]

Modern methods of construction feature directly in Kirklees delivery: Soothill's Homes England Accelerated Construction Programme grant requires the scheme to be delivered "at pace" using MMC, giving a concrete local hook for MMC-related training and site roles. [15]

Sources

Research checked on 19 September 2026.

1. Homes England / National Housing Bank, Investment Prospectus 2026 · source
2. Homes England / MHCLG, SAHP first-wave strategic partners, 25 August 2026 · source
3. WYCA Your Voice, West Yorkshire Mass Transit: Spatial Development Framework joint DPD, Regulation 19 consultation · source
4. Kirklees Together, "Have your say on the Kirklees Local Plan", 13 August 2026 · source
5. Yorkshire Live / Examiner Live, "Kirklees residents have weeks to influence government plan for more homes" · source
6. Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board, About · source
7. Kirklees Council democracy, Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board, public reports pack, 6 November 2025 · source
8. Kirklees Council democracy, Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board, public reports pack and decisions, 12 February 2026 · source · source
9. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2025–26, Annex A (checked in full) · source
10. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2026–27, Annex A (checked in full) · source
11. Find a Tender, "Dewsbury Riverside – Appointment of Master Developer" prior information notice, 2025 · source ; bidstats.uk record · source
12. Dewsbury Reporter, "Update on Kirklees' biggest housing projects — including Dewsbury Riverside, Soothill in Batley and Kenmore Drive in Cleckheaton — as 2,000 homes to be built in the district by 2030", 2 April 2024 (dated; figures marked not verified as current) · source
13. Kirklees Council democracy, Housing Growth Update decision · source
14. Housing digital / council and Homes England reporting on Soothill affordable-unit transfer, 30 January 2026, and Keepmoat "The Orchards" scheme detail · source · source
15. Housing 21, Kenmore Drive / Mowat Gardens, Cleckheaton, extra care scheme · source ; Robertson Construction case study · source
16. Kirklees Council, Affordable Housing and Housing Mix draft SPD · source
17. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036 guidance · source
18. Homes England, SAHP Continuous Market Engagement route · source
19. Homes England, SAHP Strategic Partnership route · source
20. Homes England, SAHP 2026–2036: strategic priorities in established mayoral strategic authority areas · source
21. Kirklees Council, Procurements and contracts (own procurement page, confirms YORtender) · source
22. Kirklees Council, Batley Blueprint / Levelling Up Funding application summary · source
23. Dewsbury Reporter, "Batley Blueprint: Cabinet set to discuss plans to transform town centre after successful bid to Government's Levelling Up Fund"; "Batley regeneration must be complete by 2026 — or Kirklees Council could lose funding for projects" · source · source
24. Kirklees Council, UK Shared Prosperity Fund decision records and Budget Report 2026/27 · source · source
25. Yorkshire Live / Examiner Live, "Thousands of homes planned across Kirklees as housing waiting list tops 19,000"; Kirklees Council, Housing Allocations Policy October 2025 · source · source
26. Bdaily, "Work progresses on 30-home Huddersfield scheme", 13 July 2026 · source
27. Place Yorkshire / Property Week, West Yorkshire and Homes England Strategic Place Partnership · source · source ; Kirkleestogether, "Dewsbury Riverside Development takes positive steps forward" · source
28. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme delivery guidance · source
29. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme prospectus · source
30. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 1: place selection methodology note ("Yorkshire and The Humber | Kirklees | Dewsbury") · source
31. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2: methodology note (no Kirklees entry) · source
32. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2 expansion: place selection methodology note, published 20 March 2026 (no Kirklees entry) · source
33. Kirklees Council, Contact Planning Policy and Housing and Neighbourhoods contact pages · source · source
34. Kirklees College, Brunel Construction Centre and construction courses · source · source
35. Find a Tender, "Dewsbury Riverside — Master Developer", UK1 pipeline notice 2025/S 000-027949 (OCID ocds-h6vhtk-052785), The Council of the Borough of Kirklees, published 28 May 2025 · source ; Kirklees Council, Procurements and contracts (YORtender, procurement pipeline September 2026, £2m pipeline notices) · source
36. MHCLG / WYCA, Integrated Settlement Outcomes Framework and Devolution and Integrated Settlement Update (see regions/west-yorkshire.md sources 50–51 for full detail) · source

Research notes

Verified from primary sources

• Dewsbury confirmed as a phase 1 Pride in Place place from MHCLG's own phase 1 methodology note ("Yorkshire and The Humber | Kirklees | Dewsbury"); absence from both the phase 2 note and the 20 March 2026 phase 2 expansion note checked directly against both documents. [35,36,37]
• The Pride in Place Impact Fund check was done directly against both GOV.UK determinations' Annex A tables (fetched and read in full, 94 authorities each year): Kirklees is absent from both the 2025/26 and 2026/27 lists. [10,11]
• Kirklees Council's own procurement page was read directly and confirms YORtender as the e-tendering portal and contracts-register route, matching the regional page rather than assuming it. [22]
• Kirklees's own contact pages for Planning Policy (local.development@kirklees.gov.uk) and Housing and Neighbourhoods (Housing.Regeneration@kirklees.gov.uk) were read directly. [38]
• The West Yorkshire Mass Transit SDF Regulation 19 window (4 August – 27 September 2026) is carried from the regional page's own primary-sourced detail (WYCA Your Voice), which lists Kirklees as one of the five preparing local planning authorities. [4]

Verification 19 Sep 2026

• Dewsbury Riverside procurement upgraded press → primary. The Find a Tender pipeline notice itself (2025/S 000-027949, reference KMCHG-026, published 28 May 2025) was retrieved and read. It replaces the press account of "appointment proposed for spring 2026" with the notice's own terms: competitive flexible procedure, above threshold, tender notice estimated 1 September 2025, contract estimated 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2030, with the full scope of the master-developer role set out. It also confirms the 1,988-homes figure for the council-plus-Savile-Estate ownerships and the Collaboration Agreement from a primary source rather than press. [40]
• Still open after search: whether the master developer has been appointed. Searched Find a Tender for a contract award notice against OCID ocds-h6vhtk-052785 and for "Dewsbury Riverside" generally; none found. Also retrieved the Kirklees committee pages for "Dewsbury Riverside Housing Delivery Update" and "Housing Growth Update", which carry only pre-2025 background. The brief now states the negative finding explicitly rather than leaving the question unframed.
• Procurement re-checked against the council's own page, 19 September 2026: YORtender confirmed, with the Procurement Pipeline September 2026 (CSV and Excel) and Procurement Act pipeline notices above £2m on Find a Tender now added — practical detail a reader can act on. Kirklees is a straightforward YORtender council, unlike Leeds (Jaggaer) and Bradford (migrating to Atamis); the regional page's "all five" claim has been corrected there. [22,40]
• SAHP first-wave wording corrected in the programme-milestones table: the release states no total; the partner table sums to £9,584.1m and 73,617 homes, partners capped at £350m. [2]
• SAHP partner claim corrected. "None of the 33 first-wave SAHP strategic partners is confirmed as active on a named Kirklees scheme" was wrong: Thirteen Housing Group Limited is a first-wave partner (£349.2m / 2,750 homes) and is named in this brief as delivering on five Kirklees sites. The text now says so, while keeping the point that this is not evidence of a Kirklees SAHP award. [2,26]
• Impact Fund re-checked: both determinations' Annex A tables parsed programmatically, 94 authorities each year, Kirklees absent from both. Confirmed; Leeds and Calderdale are likewise absent, Bradford and Wakefield present at £750,000. [10,11]
• Pride in Place cohort re-checked: Dewsbury is phase 1, so no plan deadline applies; the 30 November 2026 and 26 February 2027 deadlines belong to the phase 2 and expansion cohorts. The national prospectus and delivery guidance confirm the up to £20m is per place, not shared. [29,30,35,36,37]
• democracy.kirklees.gov.uk is retrievable after all — the HTTP 500 recorded in the earlier research was a non-JavaScript fetch. The same pages return HTTP 200 through ScrapingBee with render_js=true. Noted for the next edition.

Not verified / press only

• The 1,917 vs 1,927 homes-a-year figures for the revised standard method (press vs. regional consultancy analysis) are not reconciled against a primary MHCLG or council table. Searched again 19 September 2026: the council's local-plan-review and local-plan pages both return HTTP 404 under their previously recorded URLs, and the figure could not be confirmed from a council document.
• Whether Soothill and Kenmore Drive have completed on their reported March/summer 2026 dates.
• The 2024-dated council scrutiny figures for Bradley Park, Fenay Lane and the Huddersfield/Dewsbury town-centre living homes (253 total) were not re-verified against a 2026 council report; flagged inline as not verified as current.
• The exact date of Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board's ten-year vision / four-year investment plan approval, and the detail behind a reported chair vacancy during a wider council leadership issue, were not resolved from the sources checked.
• The housing waiting list figure of over 19,000 (vs. an earlier reported 6,500) is press-reported and not verified against a current council publication.
• The £390m Housing Capital Investment Plan's split between new build, retention and decarbonisation was not found.
• A published CTEC partner list naming Kirklees College for the Yorkshire and the Humber CTEC was not found; carried as an inference from the regional page.
• The Thirteen Group's five-site, 100%-affordable programme in Kirklees: scheme names, homes numbers and locations were not found.

Open items

• Whether any WYHIF scheme-level allocation has been made specifically to the Kirklees garden-community ambition (Dewsbury Riverside), beyond its designation as a priority site.
• The Batley Levelling Up Fund's current spend and delivery status against the reported 2026 completion pressure.
• Kirklees's UKSPF successor position beyond the £242,000 transitional 2026/27 voluntary-sector budget line; no Kirklees-specific Local Growth Fund allocation was found.
• A confirmed, current (2026) source for the Bradley Park, Fenay Lane and town-centre-living homes numbers, to replace the 2024 scrutiny report currently cited.

Blocked or failed URLs

• https://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/politics/council/update-on-kirklees-biggest-housing-projects-including-dewsbury-riverside-soothill-in-batley-and-kenmore-drive-in-cleckheaton-as-2000-homes-to-be-built-in-the-district-by-2030-4576420 — HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch; retrieved via ScrapingBee with JavaScript rendering instead (HTTP 200), but the article's own body text sits inside embedded JSON-LD rather than normal markup — extracted from that JSON-LD.
• https://democracy.kirklees.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?Id=11210 — ScrapingBee fetch returned HTTP 500 without JavaScript rendering. Superseded on 19 September 2026: the same site returns HTTP 200 through ScrapingBee with render_js=true (tested on mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=35955 and ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=11940, both 200). The pages retrieved carry only pre-2025 Dewsbury Riverside background, so the 2024 figures are still not replaced by a current council source — but the site is not blocked.
• https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/planning-policy/local-plan-review.aspx and .../planning-policy/local-plan/index.aspx — HTTP 404 via ScrapingBee on 19 September 2026; the council's working procurement page is at /beta/business-with-the-council/procurements-and-contracts.aspx, not the /beta/delivering-services/ path recorded earlier.
• WebFetch (not ScrapingBee) attempt on the same Dewsbury Reporter URL returned HTTP 403 directly.

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