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MISSING CASH IS ‘TIP OF ICEBERG’ A MIRFIELD councillor believes North Kirklees could be losing out on millions of pounds in funding owed by developers. Coun Martyn Bolt spoke out after discovering that a struggling school in Mirfield is owed a share of almost £90,000 by a property firm. He said the cash owed to Hopton Primary School and Mirfield Free Grammar (MFG) is “just the tip of the iceberg” and posed the question: “How much more money is Kirklees losing by failing to administer the
Housebuilders fail to stump up funds for schools and infrastructure planning process?” The Conservative councillor was prompted to investigate whether Hopton Primary had received all it was owed from firms behind local housing developments after hearing how it had lost £171,000 in government fund-
ing in the past four years. Headteacher Andy Blakeley had even considered closing the Woodend Road school on Friday afternoons in a bid to save money. Coun Bolt discovered that Hopton Primary and MFG are currently owed more than
£87,000 by developers of the nearby South Brook Gardens scheme at Back Station Road, Lea Croft Residential. The company signed a legal agreement in November 2010 to pay £107,000 as part of a socalled Section 106 agreement. The money from the deal is used to improve infrastructure and education facilities due to the extra pressure on local facilities created by the increased number of
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