Detailed approval also given for 97-home first pgased affordable townhouses will be delivered at Bradford City Village
A 1,000-home regeneration scheme in Bradford has been given the green light by Bradford Council.
Councillors yesterday gave outline approval for the Bradford City scheme which will include more than 300 apartments on the southern half of the Oastler site alongside approximately 400 apartments at Kirkgate. Demolition of the former Oastler Shopping Centre, which closed permanently in June 2025, is expected to begin later this year.
Approval for a detaled planning application for the first phase of the scheme was also given.
This phase consists of 97 two and three-bedroom townhouses.
The project is being delivered by Bradford Council and the English Cities Fund (ECF) – a partnership between Homes England, L&G and Muse.
There will be 33 homes on Chain Street centred around a new community green and 64 on the northern Oastler site arranged around series of courtyards and green spaces, all with a designated parking space.
All dwellings in the first phase will be for shared ownership (24 units) and affordable rent (73 units), delivered by Bradford-based affordable housing provider Incommunities, subject to a final legal agreement. Private rented homes will be included in the mix at later stages.
Susan Hinchcliffe, leader of Bradford Council said: “City Village is so much more than a housing development; it will be transformative for the city centre – which was why it was recently announced as one of seven ‘game-changing’ regeneration projects in the district.
[…] “City Village shows the direction of the city centre for the next ten years – quality housing, more public spaces and balancing retail against other uses that will bring more people into the city centre.”
The 1970s-built Kirkgate Shopping Centre will also close ahead of demolition beginning towards the end of 2026.
A detailed planning application for phase two of City Village will be submitted later this year.
The wider project team includes 5plus Architects, re-form Landscape Architecture, Avison Young, Cushman and Wakefield and Turner and Townsend.
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