IT has still not been revealed which of Bradford’s at ageing heritage buildings will get an injection of over £7 million of regeneration money.

West Yorkshire Combined Authority last year agreed to provide £7.4 million of funding to help the transformation of three buildings in the city centre.

The money would help kick start work to turn the buildings into housing and business space. As well as the Combined Authority funding, the projects would also involve a large amount of private investment, in total taking the budget for all three buildings to £31 million.

However, when the funding was announced the Authority was tight lipped on which buildings would be getting the big injection of public cash. And despite work on the first building due to have started in December, the identity of the buildings is still to be revealed. Bradford Council has said the information is still “commercially confidential.”

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The Combined Authority first announced the funding last summer, saying that without it developers would be put off by the high costs of bringing the old buildings back to life, and they would likely remain empty. They described the un-named buildings as being “of major significance to Bradford’s industrial and commercial heritage.”

The redevelopment of all three buildings would create create 283 new housing units and 4,366 square metres of business space. Work on the first building was due to start in December, and end in March 2020.

According to the initial plans, all three buildings are expected to have been completed by March 2021.

The Authority said the funding would help with the “high abnormal costs resulting from the age of the properties, state of repair and limitations of historic status, coupled with the barrier of low market values in the area.”

It would be used for works like stripping parts of the buildings out, water-proofing buildings and preparing the sites.

Last year the Authority said the developments would see Bradford Council “entering into joint venture partnerships with the owner/developers of each of the buildings, in order to invest funding to remove the burden of a range of abnormal costs that are constraining the viable redevelopment of each property.”

It added: “The scheme will trigger further investment and increased city centre residency will boost vitality and viability through increased spend.”

The Telegraph & Argus has been trying to get more details of which buildings are getting the funding for several months.

A Bradford Council spokesperson, said: “We are still in the process of securing a final approval for the potential grant funding for this programme, so information on individual properties that might be assisted is still commercially confidential at this stage.

“Once we have a final approval in place we will be able to share more detailed information on the properties.”