Second building opened at new health campus
January 30, 2026
The building includes clinical teaching facilities, an NHS community diagnostic centre operated by the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and a health business innovation centre.
The building is named The Emily Siddon Building after Emily Frances Siddon, who lived from 1844 to 1923. She was a leading suffragist and played a leading role in the Poor Law Board of Guardians. She was born in Mansfield but moved to Honley, near Huddersfield, where she spent most of her life. She was president of the Soldiers & Sailors Families Association in Huddersfield in the First World War and president of the wartime Honley Auxiliary Hospital committee and received the MBE in 1918 for her war work.
The new campus aims to lead healthcare innovation across the North of England. Five more building projects for the site are planned.
The site had been vacant since the demolition of Ibbotson and Lonsbrough Flats and the former Huddersfield Sports Centre while an earlier plan for a new Tesco store on the site was abandoned.
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