‘Eyesore’ Heaton house goes up in flames (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

The owner should be made to either sell it or do it up. It should be made a criminal offence to allow a property to get into such a dilapidated state that it starts making other home owners' lives a misery.

well its all good

At least it warmed the neighbours, plus point as rising fuel cost kill the less well off

Yet the Tories argue against removing council tax discounts on second homes and empty properties that would encourage owners to bring these houses back into full time use and aid with our housing crisis.

Another building just goes up in flames. That stinking rat gets about.

The longer one leaves such a property (particularly if it has been flooded) the costlier the restoration will be, as property values aren't significantly rising, holding on in the hope of a value hike is pretty pointless.
This might well have been abandoned.

There are so many other eyesores like this one in Bradford.

Check out Sunningdale (Fairweather Green area), Thornton Road (Queensbury), Fleet Lane (Queensbury), Duchy Drive and Heaton Road (Heaton) can you spot the problem house on the street and these properties are still lived in, yet they're a danger to both their inhabitants as well as visitors to the property like the post person because their falling down, gas cookers, fires, boilers haven't been services etc The electric wire is ancient etc.

Many other european countries have boundaries of acceptable behaviour in place about how you keep your property and how it effects others but here there are none.
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It's acceptable to put the home of your neighbours at threat of major structure problems and spoil their quality of life. There are no consequences for the behaving as they please many of whom have mental health issues.
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In this country, you can plant trees in your garden that in time will not only up route your property but also that of your neighbours. The victim has no recourse except to wait for subsidence to occur then (if you can afford it) take your neighbour to court to get the money to put your property back together again. Your neighbour can ignore problems with their roof and you have no recourse untill it starts to effect your property by leaking onto your adjoining walls (again if you can afford it), your neighbour can fail to repair their overflow pipe and there's nothing you can do until the damp shows in your house and you need money to sort that out if your neighbour disagrees that's a problem and refuses to sort it out or claims they have no money despite being able to afford cigarettes and is able to shop at expensive convenience stores etc etc
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In short, the kind of liberal politics which supports this kind of behavior has to stop. When the extreme condition of a property affect another it has to be dealt with and where possible stopped before its allowed to damage neighbouring properties. These are simply the right kind of laws to have in place.

Whos calling for action? Give the owner a chance. The fire only started yesterday.
I can think of a lot worse eyesores around Bradford. (hidden agenda????)