A mothballed village school could be converted into apartments.
Just a few weeks after children and teachers moved out of Denby Dale Nursery School, plans to transform it into three flats have been revealed.
The building on the corner of Wakefield Road and Leak Hall Road is owned by Kirklees Council.
But it is now surplus to requirements after the school was merged with nearby Gilthwaites First School at the start of January.
Prior to its closure it had been a school for 140 years, and was the village primary school until 1976.
The council has lodged an application for permission to convert the original building into three two-bed apartments with six parking spaces.
The temporary classrooms would be removed or demolished.
The proposal is part of the council’s land and buildings disposal project which bids to raise cash by gaining planning permission on a host of unused plots of land and empty properties.
As reported last week, plans to build two homes on a small plot of Kirklees land at Cliffe Lane, Shepley have also been lodged.
And a third application in the area to build four detached homes at land off Cliffewood Rise at Clayton West has also now been submitted.
