A TOP journalist is the latest name added to a debate about one of Bradford’s most divisive buildings.

Bradford Civic Society has arranged the discussion about High Point on Westgate - the derelict former headquarters of Yorkshire Building Society.

Titled “Save High Point/Raze High Point,” it will be held at 7pm on February 27 at Assembly Bradford in Rawson Square.

Journalist, author and broadcaster Sir Simon Jenkins, who writes for The Guardian, is the latest name to be added to the event. The former deputy chairman of English Heritage will be speaking in favour of demolishing the long empty building.

He will join Catherine Croft, Director of the 20th Century Society, who will speak in favour of keeping the building.

Other speakers include Vijay Taheem, Bradford architect and senior lecturer at the University of Huddersfield’s School of Art Design and architecture and Jordi Campo Bria, originally from Barcelona and who has been with Bradford-based Yeme architects, in the shadow of High Point, for the past four years.

The debate will be chaired by Dr George Sheeran, Honorary Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Bradford, and author of several critically acclaimed books about Bradford’s architecture and built environment.

For more information visit bradfordcivicsociety.co.uk/events/