SIR - Bradford Council is set to buy an eyesore property on Thorpe Edge that has been unoccupied for several years (T&A, October 1).

This house has been boarded up for a long time, has a garden filled with rubbish, is said to have had the interior trashed and be infested with rats and vermin.

Whilst it is good to hear that the property is to be compulsorily purchased by the Council, so that it can then be renovated, it does beg one question. How much will the Council be paying for this wreck of a property that will need a very substantial sum expending to make it habitable again?

By the sound of it the value would seem to be next to nothing.

Bob Watson, Springfield Road, Baildon