FLORAL displays across the district are being slashed by four-fifths as Bradford Council continues to cut its spending.

Roadside beds, hanging baskets, flower-filled tubs and roundabout displays are all facing the chop - as is the authority's main nursery where they are grown.

The Peel Park Nursery is set to close this summer after growing the district's blooms for more than 30 years, with one local councillor calling it a "huge loss".

The cuts, which will save £200,000 over two years, were approved as part of the Council's budget back in February.

But now the authority has revealed further details about the impact the plan will have on the district.

In a new report, it says the number of bedding plants across the district this summer will be slashed from 201,000 to just 40,200. Many beds could be grassed over, with a smaller number of high-profile displays maintained.

The remaining beds are likely to be planted up with low-maintenance specimens providing year-round colour, and in some areas voluntary groups could be asked to grow flowers.

Flowerbeds recommended for removal include those at Wibsey roundabout, Wyke recreation ground, Victoria Park in Oakenshaw, Clayton roundabout, Bradford Industrial Museum, Main Street in Menston, Bingley cemetery chapel and Lund Park in Keighley.

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But the loss of the nursery, in Undercliffe, is proving a concern to locals, according to ward councillor Tracey Leeming (Lib Dem, Bolton and Undercliffe).

Councillor Leeming said she and her ward colleagues were calling on the authority to hold a consultation with residents about how the structure could be used from now on.

She said it was currently used not just as a nursery, but also as a meeting place for the Friends of Peel Park and a storage area for the tables and marquees used for temporary markets across the district.

She said: "They could consult with local community groups and residents as to what it could be used for, and not just kept on as some sort of big storage yard.

"Ideally, for us it would be something positive, to keep it as a local community place where people could go.

"We have a lot of allotments in the area, but they are always full."

Cllr Leeming said the nursery's closure would have a big impact across the district.

She said: "They [staff] work really hard. They do all the planting that's done throughout the city, all the border planting, all the roundabouts are done from Peel Park nursery. It is going to be a huge loss."

A Bradford Council spokesman said: "The closure of Peel Park Nursery and the impact upon flowerbeds and hanging baskets across the district was part of the Council's proposals for the 2015/16 budget, and wide public consultation did take place prior to the setting of the budget earlier this year."