The Whitcliffe Mount Foundation building was built just over 100 years ago. It is an imposing building of Yorkshire stone and the Spen Valley Civic Society applied to the Government for it to be listed. The Government Inspector however decided that it wasn’t of sufficient national value for it to be listed.

Whitcliffe Mount is part of the Government’s Priority Schools Building Programme and will have a completely new school building by the Autumn of 2017. As part of this re-build it was decided that the Foundation Building had to be demolished.

There has been some local controversy about who made that decision and when. So Cllr Andrew Pinnock wrote to the Council’s Assistant Director responsible for property to find out. This is what she wrote in reply: