Bradford Council’s plans to create a new ‘City Village’ in the heart of the City Centre will go before Executive next week.
The ambitious plan focusses on creating a safe, healthy, attractive and resident-friendly environment with high-quality public spaces, landscaped and traffic calmed streets to establish a desirable new neighbourhood of up to 1,000 homes drawing people in to live, play and work.
The key elements of the City Village scheme will see highway infrastructure and landscaping/public realm improvements to create a green, traffic reduced, healthy and sustainable environment, encouraging private developers and owners of existing properties in the area to undertake more and better quality conversion schemes, facilitating new-build homes on Council owned sites and revitalising the local retail, business and leisure activities.
City Village community will boost new opportunities for revitalised independent shopping, cafes, bars and new business spaces to become a vibrant, economically and environmentally sustainable place for residents, businesses and visitors.
The city’s new £23m flagship Darley Street Market will provide a major shopping and leisure venue, and once open, will free up another major development site, the Oastler Centre.
Bradford Council’s Executive will be asked to approve the procurement process of a preferred private sector Development Partner to progress the scheme.
The City Village scheme has attracted the attention and support of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Homes England. With their collaboration, Bradford Council will secure a private developer to take the City Village scheme through to fruition.
Cllr Alex Ross-Shaw, Bradford Council’s Executive Member for Regeneration, Planning and Transport, said: “City Village is a large and ambitious regeneration project. We’re already showing some of what the City Village area will be like with the new market and this is huge opportunity to reshape the city centre with sustainable and quality new housing, public spaces and business developments. With Bradford Live, One City Park and Darley Street Market, this scheme extends our pipeline of exciting regeneration projects in the city centre for years to come.”
