{"id":130968,"date":"2025-09-09T10:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130968\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:28:07","slug":"huddersfield-museum-and-art-gallery-changes-set-for-final-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/130968\/","title":{"rendered":"Huddersfield museum and art gallery changes set for final approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phase one of the project began in summer 2024, with construction taking place on a new library hub, food hall and public square on the site of the former Queensgate Market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council expects this to be complete by 2026, with a planned opening in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Initial plans also included an events space on the top floor of the library, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c72gd7k4kxro\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">however this was axed in a bid to save money<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cabinet meeting will also propose the demolition of the remaining retail units at the Piazza shopping centre to be brought forward to an earlier date in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This would make way for a new town centre park in the scheme&#8217;s third phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turner added: &#8220;It&#8217;s a really exciting time for Huddersfield. We&#8217;re really going to make Huddersfield a place to live, work and play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the next five to 10 years you won&#8217;t recognise Huddersfield as it is now. It&#8217;ll be a modern, vibrant town in West Yorkshire.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phase one of the project began in summer 2024, with construction taking place on a new library hub,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-130968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}