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The houses are affordable and the city is diverse and bursting with culture. According to data from Rightmove, we aren’t the only ones who think this. Comparing year-on-year data, buyer searches in Bradford have increased by 80 per cent in the last 12 months. Working with Rightmove, we have also broken down this data to see which Bradford areas are the most popular with buyers- and also included some homes for sale in these areas right now. Here are 9 areas in Bradford which have at...

BURLEY Parish Council is investigating whether options exist to challenge the decision of the Secretary of State to allow planning permission for 500 homes at Sun Lane in the village. The Council met on Tuesday to discuss its response to the decision to allow building on the green belt land. A spokesperson for the Council said: “Burley Parish Council were saddened to hear the announcement from the Secretary of State on the March 3 announcing his decision to approve the building of 500 h...

A CAMPAIGN to recruit more volunteer lock keepers in Craven has been launched by the Canal and River Trust.

YORKSHIRE’S largest independent estate agent, Dacre, Son & Hartley has appointed David Simms to head up the firm’s Guiseley office.

A HOUSEBUILDER has pledged its support to a Bradford district primary school as part of a scheme to encourage less screen time when students return to the classroom. Miller Homes has donated money to Greengates Primary Academy, close to its Brompton Fold development, to mark World Book Day on March 4. The money is to help support a return to more traditional ways of learning rather than the necessary digital learning which has formed much of their education for the best part of a year. ...

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ONE OF Bradford’s most rapidly developing communities is ready to awaken from its Covid-19 slumber and continue its meteoric rise. Greengates and Apperley Bridge has changed drastically in the way it looks and feels over the past decade, with the opening of a new railway station, the arrival of several new housing developments and the much-awaited transformation of the infamous Greengates Crossroads. This core centre point has also experienced a boom in the nightlife scene over recent y...

Listed below are the latest findings of council inspectors, as they are back in Bradford. Almost 4,000 premises across Bradford are rated by the Food Standards Agency, based on the findings of local authority inspectors, who work all year round. The hygiene standards found at the time of inspection are then rated on a scale. Five is top of the scale, meaning the hygiene standards are very good and fully comply with the law. Zero is at the bottom of the scale, meaning urgent improvement ...

The Armytage Arms, Brighouse Piedmont, Elpida Group and Smoothfield have joined forced to create a new holding company, Odyzean, holding 55 per cent of the company. The firms said the new company will help address “the significant capital needs of Mitchells & Butlers”. Odyzean said it is fully supportive of the current management team but that it plans to review the current composition of the board of directors. A spokesman said: “Without this major equity injection, the prospect...

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