Plans in for £20m Huddersfield bus station revamp
Architects Stephen George + Partners and AHR have submitted proposals for the facility’s overhaul, a joint project between Kirklees Council and West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
The lodging of plans comes a month on from the official opening of a further West Yorkshire facility, a £20m station in Halifax delivered by contractor Willmott Dixon.
Designs intended for Huddersfield show a station fronted by a sweeping 120m glue-laminated timber, green roof and solar PV canopy.
Planner nineteen47 is leading on planning issues. The professional team for the project also includes engineering and environmental design consultant BWB, landscape architect Pick Everard, drainage expert Weetwood, transport advisor Bryan G Hall, and cost consultant Rider Hunt.
Plans for the redevelopment of the Upperhead Row facility have now been validated on Kirklees’ planning portal, with the reference number 2024/48/92302/W.
The green roof is intended to ‘draw the eye’ from the adjacent car park. Credit: via Satellite MPR
The applicants said the desire is to create an innovative gateway to a revitalised town centre, where various regeneration efforts are proceeding, much of them under the umbrella of the Our Cultural Heart programme being development-managed by Queensberry.
Alistair Branch, partner at SGP, said the station’s overhaul is “a core component in an ambitious series of town centre interventions led by the Council to create a cultural heart for the town centre”’
He added: “The unique canopy structure has a contemporary design, reminiscent of the rolling Yorkshire landscape, elevating the importance of this key transport hub and gathering point within the town centre.”
SGP’s design for the canopy and the public realm beneath it has been developed through consultation with the local authority and other stakeholders. Office and retail units in the station’s frontages will also be revitalised.
The enhanced public realm extends northwards towards taxi ranks and the town’s grade one-listed railway station. A secure, glazed cycle hub is included in the plans.
Work is expected to start on site in the summer of 2025, pending planning consent.
The canopy is intended to make the waiting areas lighter and improve air quality. Credit: via Satellite MPR
