AN APPLICATION for a £10,000 pre-feasibility grant to fund a report on Haworth Community Centre has been rejected.

The volunteer committee which runs the Bradford Council owned centre, in Butt Lane, are trying to act to safeguard the run down property’s future.

It is owned by the district council’s Youth Services, which has been conducting a detailed review of all of its buildings.

Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury parish councillor Ashna Yates, who helped the centre’s committee apply for the money, confirmed that the application, which had been lodged with the Locality community organisations network, had been refused.

“They had thousands of people applying for funding, and they’re sending us some information about why they turned us down,” she said. “But we’re extremely upset because we don’t know what we’re going to do now.

“We don’t yet know what Bradford are going to do with the building and we can’t afford to lose it.

“It’s a beautiful building in the middle of Haworth, but it’s had no repairs for the last 11 years, even though lots of different groups use the centre.”