Cllr Bernard McGuin with Almondbury Ward Candidate Collins Ibor think Kirklees Council planning policies ought not allow a hotel/restaurant to be built in Huddersfield on a national monument, in the green belt in the proximity of a listed building: Victoria Tower. To not keep to those policies may have a detrimental effect on the people of Almondbury and Newsome. There are consequences for wildlife and the local environment if this is allowed to go ahead.

This fiasco has gone on for nearly 17 years when planning law was broken by tearing down too much of the original Pub. The current application looks nothing like the original Pub and nobody knows what happened to the original Yorkshire Stone of the Pub.

There maybe a need for public toilet provisions and possibly beverages served up there but the current application may not be the answer.