BRADFORD CITY VILLAGE
Our Vision
The Bigger Picture
The vision for City Village is to create a green, healthy, sustainable and community-friendly city centre neighbourhood.
The role of town and city centres everywhere is changing. While the success of The Broadway shows the continued strength of retail in Bradford, the sector no longer plays the dominant role that it used to. City Village looks to respond to these new challenges and opportunities by balancing retail against other uses, which will bring more people into the city centre.
As Bradford grows into a more vibrant, liveable city, there's a significant opportunity to introduce the kind of city centre living already thriving elsewhere.
City Village provides an opportunity to deliver up to 1,000 new homes in an accessible, city centre location with great links to the surrounding city centre and public transport.
By making the city centre a place where more people can live – not just visit – we can create a stronger, more welcoming, and sustainable future for Bradford.
Precedent images illustrating the potential range of new homes that could be delivered.
While housing is at the heart of this vision, City Village will also boost new opportunities for revitalised independent retail, cafes, bars and new business spaces.
Safer roads, landscaped public spaces and quality urban design will help make City Village a place where people will choose to live, work and thrive and where businesses will want to invest, trade and grow.
Continuing the conversation
Throughout December 2023 and January 2024, we began a conversation with the local community around our early-stage 2023 vision for Bradford City Village and asked for feedback to help shape the plans going forward.
During this period of engagement we received feedback from over 400 people across Bradford.
In response to the feedback we received during our visioning engagement, we developed a set of principles that are guiding plans for Bradford City Village.
Principle 1: A ‘green’ city centre neighbourhood
Principle 2: High-quality, sustainable new homes
Principle 3: A range of community amenities
Principle 4: Creating a sustainable community for the future
Principle 5: Respecting heritage
To view a summary of our initial phase of visioning engagement, please click on the button below.
Our approach
For more detailed information about our plans, including the future phases of development planned for the Kirkgate and Oastler South sites, please click here:
Bradford City Village will be delivered in phases over a number of years.
The first phase will focus on the Chain Street site and the northern part of the Oastler Centre site (the areas highlighted in yellow). Later phases will include the Kirkgate Centre area and the southern half of the Oastler site (the areas highlighted in red).