A new report provides an update on major schemes designed to regenerate the Shipley area – with an MP calling for the projects to be progressed urgently.

Plans for housing at Crag Road, Shipley and the former Bingley Auction Mart site will be discussed at a Bradford Council meeting next week.

The local authority says it is in talks with an unnamed potential developer over the Bingley Auction Mart site in Keighley Road, Bingley. The council officer’s report says it is hopeful these talks will lead to a planning application being submitted in the near future.

Meanwhile, a two-phase plan to redevelop part of a 22-acre brownfield site in Crag Road, Shipley, is under way.

Work has started on phase one of the project, comprising 85 new homes including 50 new starter home apartments, and will be completed in March 2019.

Phase two, including a new access road and building of a new bridge across Bradford Beck, development of 80 new homes and a new car park for commuters of Shipley Railway Station, will be completed by 2021. Morrisons pulled out of plans to build a new store in Shipley in January last year. The Bradford-based retailer had won a fiercely competitive three-way contest to build a supermarket in the town three years ago, but has now confirmed that it has withdrawn from the scheme.

Shipley MP Philip Davies said: “With these regeneration schemes, we need the council to be getting on with things, instead of just talking about things.

“We need investment that is going to bring economic growth. These investments are what help bring jobs and homes.

“I want the council to facilitate these things. We need investment in other areas including Bingley and Windhill and Wrose.”

Councillor Alex Ross-Shaw, the council’s portfolio holder for regeneration, planning and transport, said: “Many of these sites are privately owned and under development already.

“The council-backed housing scheme off Crag Road is under way and going well with Skipton Properties on-site as we speak, so it’s unclear which projects Philip thinks aren’t progressing.”

The report will go before the council’s Regeneration and Economy Overview and Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday, February 20.

The regeneration of Shipley section of the meeting will discuss neglected and underused buildings in the area and assistance to small and large firms.