STOCKBRIDGE residents fear efforts to recover from the Boxing Day floods could all be for nothing if measures are not taken to prevent it happening again.

People living in the worst hit part of the neighbourhood - the unadopted sections of Florist street, Worth Avenue and Hallows Road - say the crumbling infrastructure in their area must be repaired.

Flooding victim Shazad Ismail, 37, lives with his wife and four young children.

"We lost everything on the ground floor," he said. "The kitchen has gone, carpet, sofas, laminate flooring, skirting boards. There is loads of redecorating needed and it's very stressful.

"What's even worse is that I was selling my house to move somewhere more suitable for my son who has spina bifida. But now I can't sell because the value of houses round here has gone down because of what's happened."

Mr Ismail said the badly potholed surface of Hallows Road needed urgent repairs, along with gutters and drains.

Shaminur Rahman, 37, who also lives in Hallows Road with his wife and three children, is currently staying in a hotel with his family while the badly damaged ground floor of his home is fixed.

"Because of the state of the road the water didn't drain properly, it's just went down the cracks in the road surface then into people's houses," he said.

"The fire service were saying that if the road was in good condition that could have saved a few inches of water."

Hallows Road residents said filthy flood water had literally risen up from beneath their floorboards, meaning sandbags would not have helped.

Keighley East ward councillor Doreen Lee (Lab) said drains in parts of Stockbridge were completely blocked.

She suggested Government flood resilience funding of £5,000 per home could be deployed more effectively if all individual household grants are combined to fund one major drainage repair scheme.

But she warned that getting every individual household to agree to this would not be easy.

"The situation down there on those unadopted roads is dire," she said.

Meanwhile, retired Oakworth resident Pam Gibson, who lives at the bottom of Station Road with her husband John, said her home's ground floor was still without carpets after water got into the end-terrace property.

"The insurance company brought us some dehumidifiers and the house has more or less dried out now," she said.

"But we are concerned about this happening again.

"The drains are blocked coming down Station Road, so that might have had something to do with it."

She said it was the first time the house had flooded in the 17 years she had lived there.

Bradford Council was contacted for comment.