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Along the southern boundary of the parish of Wilsden on Laneside lies the churchyard belonging to St Matthew's church which received the souls of Wilsdeners from 1826 until the church closed in the middle of the twentieth century. The church itself was demolished in 1962, leaving a green footprint amongst the tombstones. In subsequent years, the ch...

 In 2019, Wilsden Parish Council, Wilsden Primary School and the Wilsden Branch of the Women's Institute together purchased Parking Buddies to make the pupils of Wisden Primary School safer.Wilsden Parish Council wrote to the Highways Department at CBMDC and received guidance of how the Parking Buddies should be deployed in line with Highways ...

Wilsden Community Library, Wilsden Village Hall, Townfield, BD15 0HT We are pleased to announce that the Library will re-open on Tuesday, 18 May. Initially, our new opening hours will be Tuesday's from 2:00 pm till 6:00 pm. We will resume our normal 10:00 am opening time on a Tuesday when the Luncheon Club re-opens, hopefully in the near future. Du...

Wilsden Parish Council's responses to Questions 140 and141 of theLocal Plan Consultation by CBMDC submitted 22nd March 2021 Q140 Summary: Wilsden Parish Council has commented on the source and scope of the data used to prepare the 5.27 local area strategy. We have also made a number of comments and corrections on the detail of 5.27. We are very sup...

Planning Application 20/02606/MAO Wilsden Parish Council would like to appraise Bradford Council Planning Department of a change in its position regarding the planning application submitted for a residential development at Prospect Mill, Main Street, Wilsden. Wilsden Parish Council voted on 1st March 2021 to support the change of use to wholly resi...

Wilsden Parish Council Newsletter January 2021 Wilsden Housing Development - Where are we now? As residents will know, the parish council have been working on a Neighbourhood Plan for Wilsden. In brief, it is to allow the community to have some say in the development of Wilsden and Harecroft to 2038, subject to certain restrictions such as the numb...