The Telegraph & Argus: News from across the Bradford district

Menston villagers to vote on housing bids

10:29am Wednesday 16th March 2011

People living in Menston will get the chance to vote in a referendum about whether they want 300 extra homes in the village.

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Readers' derelict land suggestions to be presented to Bradford Council

12:10pm Monday 14th March 2011

A dossier of derelict sites which mar the district will be presented to Bradford Council by a group battling to save green fields from unwanted development.

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Praise for derelict land homes plan

8:44am Friday 11th March 2011

Campaigners battling house-building on green fields in the Bradford district have heaped praise on plans to use wasteland for a major homes scheme.

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Petition begun to save green sites

7:40pm Sunday 6th March 2011

Campaigners have already attracted hundreds of supporters in a bid to get a 1,500-signatures petition demanding Bradford Council ensures brownfield sites and derelict property are re-developed before more green fields are swallowed up.

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Wilsden villagers urged to view 80-houses plan

5:50pm Sunday 6th March 2011

Villagers are being urged to voice their opinions during a public consultation about a proposed housing development in Wilsden.

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'Bradford historic mills should be saved’

6:10am Saturday 5th March 2011

An historian has called for action to regenerate an estimated 50 derelict mills across Bradford.

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Homes protestors march across Bradford

10:04am Friday 4th March 2011

More than 500 letters of objection to a major housing development on a greenfield site in Menston were handed to Bradford Council.

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'No sale' pledge for green area

9:43am Thursday 3rd March 2011

Bradford Council has reassured residents that green space which has become a haven for wildlife over the past three decades will not be sold off for development.

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Votes plan to stop 300 new homes

4:39pm Thursday 3rd March 2011

Campaigners are planning to call a parish referendum to help block the development of former greenfield sites.

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Probe into Baildon business park plan consent

10:00am Friday 25th February 2011

A protest group’s allegations that maladministration occurred during the decision-making process to grant consent for a multi-million pound business park are being investigated by Bradford Council’s regeneration chiefs.

Backing grows for online campaign to identify derelict land

12:21pm Thursday 24th February 2011

Hundreds of run-down buildings and disused sites have been identified by Telegraph & Argus readers responding to the Save Our Green Spaces campaign.

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Baildon group in bid to overturn decision on business park

11:26am Tuesday 22nd February 2011

A pressure group hoping to reverse a Council decision for a £25million business park has put together a dossier of photos of disused land and empty factories nearby.

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Plea to let crumbling Victorian mill be developed

11:39am Monday 21st February 2011

A property owner has voiced his frustration at being unable to demolish a crumbling Victorian mill for redevelopment because it is in a conservation area.

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Bid to get Bradford Council behind campaign

9:18am Friday 18th February 2011

Campaigners are aiming to collect 1,500 signatures on a petition calling on Bradford Council to ensure brownfield sites and derelict property are redeveloped before green fields are swallowed up.

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Map your sites of derelict land

9:20am Thursday 17th February 2011

An interactive map has been launched today by the Telegraph & Argus to help our readers compile a study of derelict buildings and disused land across the district.

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VIDEO: Residents in fight to prevent new bid for 400 homes

8:30am Wednesday 16th February 2011

New battle lines have been drawn up in the fight to stop a controversial green field housing development.

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Bradford's industrial heritage ‘slipping off map’

8:20am Tuesday 15th February 2011

A photographer who has spent two years charting Bradford’s crumbling buildings has backed a major campaign which is compiling a survey of derelict sites across the district.

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MPs back T&A land survey campaign

2:05pm Monday 14th February 2011

Bradford’s MPs today backed a campaign to compile a survey of derelict land across the district.

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Fury at Council plans for 100 houses on woods site

8:00am Monday 14th February 2011

Controversial plans to build nearly 100 homes in a semi-rural setting have been criticised.

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Campaign is backed across the country

10:49am Thursday 10th February 2011

Campaigners drawing up a comprehensive catalogue of derelict land across the Bradford district have received backing from environmental organisations.

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Help us pinpoint district's derelict land in new campaign

8:00am Wednesday 9th February 2011

Campaigners battling to prevent greenfield land being swallowed up by developers today urged the public to help them compile the biggest survey ever held of derelict sites in the Bradford district.

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Green field campaigners' fury as Council says it has no idea how much derelict land is available

7:30am Monday 31st January 2011

Campaigners opposed to greenfield developments have blasted Bradford Council for its lack of up-to-date information on how much land is lying derelict across the district.

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