Neighbourhood Board Meetings.

The Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board holds quarterly public meetings at Dewsbury Town Hall.

These meetings provide updates on the ongoing Town Investment and Pride in Place programmes, and seek any decisions the Board needs to make.

To strengthen engagement with local residents and businesses, the Board now offers a 30-minute informal drop-in session (15:30-16:00) with board members immediately before each quarterly meeting. This is a chance to speak directly with members and learn more about regeneration projects, share your priorities, or discuss specific issues.

The drop-in sessions will take place in a meeting room adjacent to the main board meeting.

If you’re unable to attend the drop-in, each formal meeting also includes a Public Question Time, where board members respond to questions from the public. You can submit questions in advance by emailing executive.governance@kirklees.gov.uk.

Responses to all previous public questions, along with full meeting discussions, are recorded in the minutes.

View previous Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board meeting minutes here.

Recent Questions.

The public questions and answers shown below are from the most recent Neighbourhood Board Meeting (19th June 2026).

The Daisy Hill Neighbourhood Project is one of the key projects within the Dewsbury Town Investment Plan, and the Field House project (now called Station Apartments) is a flagship first phase development, which is nearing completion.
Daisy Hill Neighbourhood has always been set out as a long term programme, and the development at Station Apartments emphasises the time and effort it takes to deliver high quality regeneration to transform the area.
Following the work on acquisition of property, technical feasibility, and market engagement, the next phase of Daisy Hill delivery will be the redevelopment of Neil Jordan House, which is being actively marketed as the next phase of housing led regeneration in the area.
In response to the previous market engagement, progress is also being made on the acquisition of further strategic land and property which will be attractive to the wider development market, and will encourage investment in Daisy Hill as part of a wider town centre living strategy.
This is where the Pride in Place programme will complement and take forward the work done to date through master planning and redeveloping underused sites, setting out the wider housing led regeneration aspirations and opportunities in Dewsbury town centre, with priorities established through the Place Working Group.
The wider Pride in Place programme will also now start to improve the Daisy Hill area through the Safey & Security interventions, providing revenue funding for additional police resources alongside a designated multi-disciplinary council resource to address issues such as fly tipping and waste storage, and council officers have already started to make progress in considering these issues in advance of the funding being secured.

Frequently Asked Questions.

The Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board is a group of volunteer local leaders, businesses, and community representatives working together to support the regeneration and long-term improvements in Dewsbury Town Centre. Government has mandated the board is set up and run by a range of local leaders and community organisation representatives.
The board’s role is to oversee projects that have been approved through Town Deal funding. The Board makes decisions within funding parameters, that align with objectives including economic growth and regeneration and meeting the needs of the community.
The board includes representatives from local businesses, community groups, local government, a local MP, and other key organisations.
View our Board Members here.
The board is funded by grant monies from central Government, Council contributions, and private investment that have been approved in the Town Investment Plan.
All projects are currently in the delivery phase, and it’s evident in Dewsbury centre (as of Spring 2025) these are happening. Some of these projects will be ongoing for a number of years, and more projects are anticipated to start once the board and government have approved projects from the Plan for Neighbourhoods funding.
No, the board works independently but collaborates closely with the local council and other organisations to deliver projects. The Council is the accountable body with the Town Board being responsible for overseeing project delivery.
Updates will be posted on the website, through social media, and in press releases in local news. You can also sign up for email updates from this website too and follow links to social media channels.
A key part of the board work is to listen to public feedback as they too are local people. In addition to consultation feedback, the website and social media channels, the local people can share their views or submit questions they may have ahead of board meetings. These questions can be answered during Board meetings..
In 2025, we held a public consultation - helping us explore how we can best use the £20m of investment that Dewsbury is set to receive from the Government’s Plan for Neighbourhoods funding.
You can view and download a summary of our consultation results here.
Town Fund grant funding can be moved between the already approved Town Deal projects, subject to a Project Adjustment Request (PAR) being approved by Government. This funding cannot be moved from an approved Town Deal project to something new, such as Dewsbury Sports Centre. 
Any changes to the programme are dealt with through a PAR process, which offers some flexibility for places to amend their projects. With projects all now in delivery, PARs should focus on securing the viability of existing projects and ensuring that interventions are deliverable, good value for money and continue to have a strong strategic fit with the original Town Investment Plan.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) guidance notes that Neighbourhood Boards have the delegated authority to move 30% of spend across financial years. The guidance also offers boards the opportunity to reallocate up to 30% of project funding to another project within the specific Towns Fund Programme provided: 
- The change does not exceed 30% of the source project value.  (Town Deal Grant element for scheme) .
- The projects remain good value for money as per the requirements of each fund.
- Outputs, outcomes and spend timetable do not move or reduce by more than 30%.
The Board recognises the importance of accessible sports and leisure facilities in Dewsbury and understands the community’s concerns about the closure of the former leisure centre.
While the Board itself does not have the authority to reopen or directly fund such facilities, it supports Kirklees Council’s confirmed plans to deliver a new sports and leisure centre serving Dewsbury and Batley.
Kirklees Council has now secured £35 million for the new venue, following approval at the Budget Council Meeting on 25 February 2026. The centre is expected to include a swimming pool, gym, studios, and indoor sports provision.
The Council has already moved into the next phase of the project and is working with leisure and health experts to shape the facility mix and develop detailed proposals.
The email address was originally set up as part of the Our Future Dewsbury consultation and engagement programme, launched in 2024 as a way for the public to contact the Board and provide feedback to help shape the Plan for Neighbourhoods. The email address continues to be actively monitored, and any public enquiries about Dewsbury, the Board, or the town’s regeneration are responded to and passed on to the appropriate leads within Kirklees Council and the Neighbourhood Board.

What is the geographic boundary the Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board are responsible for and is the Sport Centre within this?

The boundary for the Neighbourhood Board was set by Central Government as the Office for National Statistics ONS Built Up Area, this is the area shown in black to the left.

In developing the Town Investment Plan it was agreed that the primary focus of investment activities should be the town centre (shown left in red), to help aid increasing footfall and economic growth as outcomes from targeting some of this investment.

Dewsbury Neighbourhood Board members agreed, with advice from Government officials, that any future funding should focus on the town centre to ensure future investment builds on and aligns with existing regeneration plans and priorities. 

How were the Town Deal projects identified?

The previous government allocated billions of funding to specific towns throughout the UK which were identified as needing improvement, with Dewsbury being earmarked for this.

A visual summary is below to highlight the timeline and process of the selection process.

Public consultation by Kirklees Council as part of the Dewsbury Blueprint was undertaken and a contractor was appointed to develop a Town Investment Plan.

Avison Young were appointed as contractors to help support through preparing and developing the Town Investment Plan. Social Communications were subsequently appointed to undertake engagement with communities to understand priorities that will help shape improvements needed in 5process, a selection process was undertaken from a long list of ideas and shortened based on government criteria and technical guidance.

Finally, the Town Board approved the projects, which are now in the delivery phase of the Blueprint.