Holt Farm Primary School, Halesowen, March 2014

TranKmasT · Mar 30, 2014

Big thanks to Dinosaur for pointing this out to me. Couldn't find any history on the place, just that it was closed in 2006 and local residents want knocked down. Shame I didn't find out about it a few years earlier.

Halesowen North Labour candidate Hilary Bills said the Holt Road building was an eyesore for residents and had become a haven for anti-social behaviour including drug taking.

She said community groups were “crying out” facilities, yet organisations like the Asian Elders had been refused permission to use the former school, which closed in 2006.

Mrs Bills, a former teacher at the school, said it was “very sad” to see it boarded up and the playground overgrown with weeds.

She added that yobs had kicked in the doors to a block of about eight garages in Stewart Road and were also using them for drug taking and drinking.

Councillor Tim Wright, cabinet member for human resources, law and governance, remained tight-lipped on the future of the school site, saying only that informal discussions were ongoing with developers concerning the school site, “as part of wider, commercially sensitive issues,” but it will not be placed on the market at this stage.