Were our public buildings sold by bus companies?

COUNCILLOR SEEKS PROBE INTO POSSIBLE SELLING OFF OF ASSETS

- By JOHN GREENWOOD

THE possibility that once-publicly owned buildings have somehow been allowed to be sold off by private bus companies should be explored, councillors say.

As the old West Yorkshire Transport Executive from the early 1970s became Metro and privatisation later led to private bus companies using depots and the like, a Halifax case might be food for thought across the region, Calderdale councillors heard.

Following a question Coun Geraldine Carter asked in the summer about the sale of buildings at Huddersfield Road, Halifax - once the property of Halifax Borough Council and a successor transport authority - by service operator First, she asked for more investigation.

Councillors were told it was likely First owned the building following bus privatisations in the 1980s.