Blueprints have been drawn up for the redevelopment of more than a dozen of the district’s secondary schools at a cost of nearly £210 million.

A weighty document outlines planners’ preferred options for rebuilding, refurbishing and remodelling the final 13 schools involved in Bradford Council’s Building Schools for Future (BSF) programme.

Architects were charged with coming up with three or four options for each school, taking into account feedback from a lengthy, district-wide public consultation.

Senior school staff and management, governors and trustees, parents, pupils, councillors and residents have all been consulted on the £209m third and last phase of the ambitious project, and the report is now set to be picked over by councillors at a meeting of the Council’s executive on April 21.

One option for each school must be agreed on, then developed in more detail.

Planners recommend that Bingley Grammar, Nab Wood and Ilkley Grammar schools be rebuilt, but many schools’ hopes of similar redevelopment appear to have been dashed.

Despite “overwhelming” public support for new-build schools at a number of secondaries, including Belle Vue Boys and Girls schools and Carlton Bolling College, new-builds have been rejected because of “insufficient funds”.

Ilkley Grammar is recommended to be demolished and rebuilt half a mile away on a green belt site in Wheatley Lane, next to Ben Rhydding train station.

Planners claim that re-developing the existing school at the Cowpasture Road site would take too long and would disrupt pupils’ education and there was a strong majority support for its re-location.

Bingley Grammar would be rebuilt within its own grounds. The existing school would be flattened and replaced by sports pitches and a car park. Planners considered relocating the school but the Council would have had to rely on purchasing nearby land. Nab Wood School would also be rebuilt next to its sports hall on its existing site in Cottingley New Road.

Councillor Michael Kelly, the Council’s executive member for services to children and young people, said: “We have now finished the assessment of the different options for the final stage of Building Schools for the Future – the largest single phase of this programme nationally which shows we are leading the way.

“The responses from the recent public consultation, which involved local communities, councillors, staff, parents, governors and students, have now been collated to inform the assessment of each option for every school involved. A report is going to the Executive to decide on the option for each of the schools to be developed in full.

“The agreed options will be included in the Outline Business Case to be submitted to the Partnership for Schools by June 22.”

Councillor Ralph Berry, the education spokesman for the Labour group, said overall the report was positive.

“It’s the biggest single investment in school building that Bradford’s had, so I welcome it,” he said.

“There is a lot of evidence of trimming down to keep within the financial envelope. I’m looking at being assured that it isn’t at the cost of quality. Some of the judgements will have to be carefully thought about.”

But Councillor David Ward, the education spokesman for the Liberal Democrat group, questioned why new-build schools were only being built in Conservative strongholds.

He said: “St Bede’s and St Joseph’s excluded, seven of the remaining eight schools have gone for new-build and they have all been turned down on the basis of insufficient funds, yet the funds for Thornton have been increased and three new builds in Ilkley, Bingley and Nab Wood will collectively take up an extra £20 million, taking away these options for other schools.

“I expect this report to be pulled before the improvement committee and I want some serious answers about why these three schools had been identified for new-build before the consultation process.”

Coun Ward also warned of a repeat of the situation in Kirklees where Labour and the Liberal Democrats snatched leadership of the Council after clashing with the controlling Conservatives because of differences over its BSF programme.

In Bradford, the Conservative administration is supported by the Lib Dems. Coun Ward, who is also deputy leader of the Lib Dem group, said: “If we don’t get serious answers we will have to look again at the arrangement of support we give to the Council.”

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