A tenant has been slated by a housing chief for running down a once-notorious estate at a committee meeting.

Mrs Linda Jowett turned up at the housing services sub committee to protest about plans for a play area near her home in Ravenscliffe.

But chairman Councillor Jim O'Neill launched an attack on her saying he would not listen to anyone who was "talking the estate back down".

Estate mediators have already been brought in because of the controversy on the estate about the proposals.

Mrs Jowett told the committee she believed there would be a continuous nuisance from the site and that the main people pressing for the playground did not live there. But Coun O'Neill said in the last six months alone 70 people had been given new homes on the once hard-to-let estate and five were in the Norbury Road area.

Coun O'Neill said crime on Ravenscliffe was now below most areas of Bradford.

After the meeting, Mrs Jowett said she would ask for a transfer from the estate, adding: "The harassment there is worse than ever."

The sub committee decided officers should consider the whole situation and make a decision.

Officers told members that the Norbury Road Action Group wanted to clear the waste land at the back of houses in Norbury Road and make it into a playground.

The parents were prepared to manage the scheme and would apply for grants for equipment.

The officers said the group wanted to apply for permission to the Council to set the land up as a playground.

But other residents objected to the proposal and had submitted a 27-signature petition against the scheme.

However, a further 41 people had signed a petition in favour of it.

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