{"id":587107,"date":"2025-11-22T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587107\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:25:20","slug":"calverley-library-building-auction-confirmed-this-financial-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587107\/","title":{"rendered":"Calverley Library: Building auction confirmed &#8216;this financial year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By Don Mort<\/strong>, local democracy reporter<\/p>\n<p>A West Leeds library building is to be sold off at auction, a council report has today confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds City Council said the Calverley Library site could be re-developed, after it has been put up for sale by public auction.<\/p>\n<p>Library services provided at the Thornhill Street building, built in 1973, are set to move to Calverley Mechanics Institute. As <a href=\"http:\/\/Work to convert Calverley\u2019s Mechanics Institute into a library is set to begin next week, a councillor has confirmed.\">reported by WLD<\/a>, refurbishment work was due to start at the Mechanics this month.<\/p>\n<p>A council report said the sale would raise cash for the authority, which must make more than \u00a3100m in savings this financial year.<\/p>\n<p>It said: \u201cThe building is located in the centre of established residential area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is likely the building will attract a number of buyers from self-builds and builders to demolish and redevelop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than \u00a3200,000 was being invested in a refurbishment of the nearby Mechanics building to make the re-location\u00a0possible.<\/p>\n<p>The council said it was liable for maintenance costs while the current building was still in use.<\/p>\n<p>The report said:\u00a0\u201cA disposal will remove these responsibilities and associated costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The council held a public consultation into the future of the library service in the village earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The report said: \u201cIt should be noted that a mobile library service will be utilised during the relocation of library resources to the Mechanics Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to ensure continuity of service and minimise any down time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The council said it was proposing to sell the library building before the end of this financial year.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-19.08.56-645x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164819\"  \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bramleybaths.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.bramleybaths.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Don Mort, local democracy reporter A West Leeds library building is to be sold off at auction,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-587107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115594286785811939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}