PLANS for a £2.9 million canalside development have been approved. Social housing provider Incommunities has been given the go-ahead to build 19 houses on a site it owns alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Crossflatts. The Marley Court development will comprise a mixture of affordable homes for sale and rent, plus properties to be put on the open market. Previously the site was home to three blocks of Incommunities flats, which were demolished in 2011. Plans for the new scheme were submitted to Bradford Council earlier this year. Approving the development, council planning officers said: “It is considered that the proposed dwellings have been well designed and will create a visually interesting development which relates well to the canal.”
Demolition work is well underway at the Manchester Road flats DEMOLITION work got underway this morning on the blocks of flats off Manchester Road overlooking Bradford city centre. A 62 metre tall, 140 tonne excavator, which was brought into the site yesterday, is being used to tear the buildings down by contractors Thomas Crompton. The work is expected to last into the new year pulling down the five blocks of flats on the south site, before work begins pulling down the three Y-shaped blocks on the northern site. Once the flats are demolished, work can begin on a new housing development for families on the site.