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There's no logic to anything planned in Bradford. The place is on its arse and money should not be wasted on pointless buildings, housebuilding in areas where its stupid to build them when there is no improvement to road system infracteuctures and public transport. But then it's Bradford Council isn't it who have a track record of sheer incompetence.

 

It can't change. A lot of it has to do with its geographical location, there's a reason they didn't build a through rail line all those years ago, the cost was astronomical and for little economic benefit. From an infrastructure point of view Bradford was dying a long time ago and post 70s when it was clear regeneration was the only way forward Leeds was the area to benefit rather than Bradford due to this. When I was at construction college back in the late 80s early 90s the architect who lectured us told us back then Leeds had 5x the amount of prime building land that Bradford had and if you were to build a new city from scratch now the location of Bradford is probably the least desirable area to build one. Leeds doesn't have the building constraints of the pennines tied to its backside. We are the youngest City in the country built off the back of the industrial revolution, unfortunately that 150 year old infrastructure is also a noose around the neck, it can't be changed without huge cost that you cannot recoup. Better to spend the money elsewhere, it's the reason there is so much construction with houses and business along the m62 and m1 and within reach of major rail networks. Its why companies like Lavers are eventually moving, who wants to spend the best part of half an hour just getting your goods to the motorway network?
You need to fotget this idea it's the people's fault that Bradford has been in steady decline, business dictates that not the folk who live there.

 

I'd be very surprised if anyone did come back after leaving, if I could live my life again I'd have left a couple of decades back.

 

Which bit is made up? Having had the displeasure of working in apartments in the centre of Bradford I can confirm that a fair number of residents are no better than pigs, piles of rotting waste, nappies etc just dumped in the communal bin areas, even when the bins weren't full. In some cases just throwing the bags out of the apartment windows. Not the full problem though, lack of bins and bin emptying are part of the problem as are the ever growing number of fast food outlets within the city centre.

 

I have this discussion with my old fella. Ilkley is not part of Bradford, its merely part of the Bradford metropolitan district and has the same post code in parts. The vast majority of the city of Bradford is a rancid shithole whereas a lot of the post codes are nice areas.

 

I'd say all of those places would happily remove themsleves from the rule of the metropolitan district if given the chance.