Bids have been submitted to allow the demolition of the redundant former Wyke Manor School building as well as the village’s library, which is due to be moved to a new site next year.

Bradford Council has filed a planning notice signalling its intent to demolish the buildings early in the New Year.

Work to bulldoze the former secondary school, caretaker’s house, temporary units and garage, is expected to take four months and could begin as early as January 7.

The job to demolish the 1958 purpose-built library building is expected to take two weeks and could begin in early February once the facilities are transferred to new community premises on the Appleton Academy site at Wyke.

The new school was built as a through-age academy to replace Wyke Manor and High Fernley Primary School. Pupils began at the new building in September.

As previously reported in the Telegraph & Argus, work is underway to develop a Rugby League centre of excellence on the Wyke Manor site. Last month the Council’s executive gave the initial go-ahead to developing a £1.5 million scheme with the hope that sports bodies such as the Rugby Football League and Sport England will fund two-thirds of the project.

All the buildings on the site are to be demolished, apart from the sports hall.

It has emerged that early talks have taken place about using the site of the library on Huddersfield Road to build an extra care housing scheme helping older people live more independently.

Local Labour councillor David Warburton, told the T&A: “It’s some distance away, but once the library site has been cleared we are looking at working with the Council’s asset management department about extra care housing. It may not be straight away, but that’s what we have set our sights on. We don’t want to leave the site unprotected, so the building will be taken down and the site cleared.

“We know there is a need within Wyke for an extra care housing scheme of this sort.”

Councillor Val Slater, the Council’s executive member for housing, planning and transport, said: “Plans for the future of the site are in their early stages.”