BADLY damaged changing rooms at an inner city sports facility will be demolished in the coming weeks.

The changing rooms at Seymour Street Recreation Ground have become “unusable” after suffering from arson attacks and vandalism, and now Bradford Council has revealed that the prefabricated building is in such a dire state that it will need to be pulled down.

It is one of a number of public structures that will be knocked down in the coming months after being deemed no longer needed by the Council, including a former air raid shelter and abandoned “public conveniences” near a children’s playground.

The changing rooms are just off Upper Seymour Street, off Leeds Road, and had been used by people playing on the sports facilities, which include a football pitch and five a side pitch.

The Council has submitted an application to pull down the building, saying it is no longer safe to be used after repeated vandalism.

The application says: “The units have been fire damaged and are no longer usable.”

Fire damage can be seen on the building, and parts appear to be ready to crumble.

The changing rooms have also been daubed in obscene graffiti.

When the Telegraph & Argus visited the site, two people were sat behind the building drinking alcohol.

A recent study of the district’s playing pitches says the Council run pitches at the site are currently unused.

The Council’s application says the demolition work is due to start next month, and the ground will be re-seeded once the structure is removed. A Bradford Council spokesperson, said: “The facilities at Seymour Street haven’t been used by any team for a number of years. They have over the last few years become a target for numerous acts of vandalism including arson and unfortunately are now regularly being used as a screen for anti-social behaviour including drinking and drug taking. “The facilities comprise of a changing area, which has had the most damage and will have to be demolished and a small kitchen and social area, which we are looking to see if this can be salvaged and relocated and put to use elsewhere.”

The Council has submitted plans to remove a number of other derelict or unused facilities from other parks and sports grounds in the city.

Officers have also submitted a demolition application for the former changing rooms at Wyke Recreation Grounds.

The single storey building, a former air raid shelter before it was converted to changing rooms, recently became redundant when, in 2014, new facilities were on the site.

Wyke Rugby Club had handed a petition signed by almost 90 people to Bradford Council calling for the new facilities, saying the shelter was not suitable for a growing sports club.

Thanks to a Sport England grant £185,000 was spent on a “brand new changing unit and community facility” at the grounds.

Before then, Wyke had used the cramped former brick shelter since 1948.

In the Council’s application to demolish the building, officers say the work is likely to take place in early January, and the ground beneath it landscaped.

A separate application to demolish a toilet block elsewhere at Wyke Recreation Grounds has also been submitted by the Council.

The brick building, just off Town Gate, is also redundant, and a target for vandalism.

Work to demolish the building will begin in February.

A bricked up toilet building at Ladyhill Park, off Allerton Road is also due to be demolished in the coming weeks.

The Council’s application for the block, which is on Chapel Lane and near the park’s War Memorial area, says the former public conveniences will be pulled down next month.