In more recent times after the school closed it was used as offices for Leeds City Council’s social care service, but is now empty
A representative of the organisation said: “We’ve been dreaming of that building. We tried our best. We don’t have a proper community centre in our part of south Leeds and a lot of our young people are struggling to find somewhere.
“We asked the council if we they could sell the building to us but because more groups were interested they had to auction it. It’s a shame, but we’re still looking and there’s another place on Dewsbury Road we think might be suitable.”
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