Currently four bidders to run Fartown High replacement

Nov 4 2010 by Kevin Core, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

FOUR bids to run the replacement for Fartown High School have been received by Kirklees Council.

The final day of the competition came to an end at midnight on Tuesday as the bidding deadline closed.

No details of the bidders have been released as yet, but a summary is set to be made public within three weeks.

With the planned closure of Fartown High School and a new one set to be built at Bradley, the Department for Education opened the competition to fund the project.

According to the rules of the process, parents, charities, community and faith groups, an individual or even the local authority can put a bid in to develop a new school to replace Fartown.

It will cater for boys and girls aged between 11 and 16 and provide places for 1,200 pupils on a site next to All Saints Catholic College in Bradley.

The current proposal is that it will open in September 2011 on the site of Fartown High School at Woodhouse Hall Road.

Once work is completed on the new school building at Bradley Bar in September 2013 the new school would transfer there.