WORK to demolish the remainder of The Tyrls on the edge of City Park is continuing with one side of the building already brought down to ground level.

Workers began demolishing the former police station three weeks ago with machinery breaking through from the Prince's Way side of the building to the centre courtyard. The next stage was to begin taking the building down floor by floor from the inside out.

Currently what appears to be about two thirds of the former police station has been demolished.

The building has been empty since 2007 and was partly demolished in 2010 at City Park was being built. The rest remained due to a continued need to use the cells which were connected to the magistrates' court by an underground tunnel.

As new magistrates' court cells have been built as part of the project to free up the key city centre site for redevelopment, and are now open, the demolition work has commenced.

The work to build the new cells as well as demolish the remainder of the former police station and clear the site for redevelopment is expected to cost £4.5 million,

Bradford Council is expected to begin marketing the site to developers shortly. It already has the benefit of outline planning permission for three new office blocks of between three and five storeys - enough to house 700 employees.