Ilkley Civic Society Recent Articles

Grove Spa Bollards refreshed

As part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, Ilkley Civic Society recently obtained consent to repaint the two remaining stone pillars that were...

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Eastern Hydros Walk

Ilkley Civic Society Heritage Walk – Eastern Hydros On Saturday July 25 at 2pm we meet at the junction of Cowpasture Road and Wheatley Road.  We...

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Who's buried here?

The friends of Ilkley Cemetery not only do regular gardening work to remove brambles and saplings from overgrown graves, uncovering hidden graves, leaf...

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The Society's Planning Committee meets monthly to review planning applications received by Bradford. The Society's charitable objects include 'to promote high standards of planning and architecture'.

In June 2026 there were nine applications and the Society felt that it had to object to six of these, all of which were at least partly because the  submitted information was not sufficiently clear.

Lack of clarity of information can lead to poor standards, inaccurate building regulations and provides wriggle room for variation in the proposals after permission has been granted and the Civic Society will continue to press for more complete applications with clearer information.