Bradford Council’s £24.4 million City Park scheme will be finished on time, despite disruption caused by the harsh winter.

Regeneration chiefs insist progress has been made in the last 12 months to the site outside City Hall and the project is expected to be ready for an official opening in September, as planned.

Barra Mac Ruairi, the Council’s strategic director for regeneration and culture, said: “Since the construction team started on site in December 2009, major progress has been made on the building of City Park.

“The harsh winter conditions have impacted upon construction as it has created difficult ground conditions. However work continues at speed and we can see the first paving sets being laid.

“Work is still progressing towards the scheduled completion in September.”

He said there had been no need to draft in extra construction workers to cope with delays caused by the conditions.

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