IN its ongoing efforts to address a £47m deficit, cash-strapped Kirklees Council is looking to dispose of more than 50 assets.
Historic buildings - including the Grade II-listed former Red House Museum in Gomersal - are in line to be offloaded as well as plots of land and village halls.
According to a council report, the local authority wants to make a minimum of £4m within the current financial year from the sale of assets.
While the council is looking to bring in some cash, other options for some sites include Community Asset Transfers where a site is handed over to be owned and managed by the community.
Here is a look at some of the assets the council has agreed to dispose of since the start of the current financial year:
Birstall and Birkenshaw
Land at Raikes Lane/The Mount, Birstall, Batley, Raikes Lane/The Mount, Birstall, Batley, WF17 9QU
Land at Croft Street, Adj. to Birkenshaw Liberal Club, Croft Street, Birkenshaw, Bradford, BD11 2HT
Cleckheaton
Scott Lane / Northgate, Northgate, Cleckheaton, BD19 3NB
Whitechapel School Easement, Whitechapel Road, Cleckheaton, BD19 6HR
Heckmondwike
Land adjacent to Sycamore Industrial Estate, Walkley Lane, Heckmondwike
Liversedge and Gomersal
Former Gomersal First School, Former Gomersal First School, Oxford Road, Gomersal, Cleckheaton, BD19 4JR
Nibshaw Lane, Nibshaw Lane, Gomersal, Cleckheaton, BD19 4PD
Land at Second Avenue, RM Grylls, Second Avenue, Hightown, Liversedge, WF15 8JW
Red House, Former Red House Museum, 281 Oxford Road, Gomersal, Cleckheaton, BD19 4JP
Other land
Land at Whitehouse Lane, NW Leeds Employment Hub, Whitehouse Lane, Yeadon, Leeds, LS19 7UE
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