Urban garden opens on stalled shops site

An "urban garden" on the site of Bradford's stalled £320m shopping centre has been officially unveiled.

The 15-acre city centre site had been empty since demolition work began in 2004 to make way for Westfield to build the Broadway development. Last year Westfield announced that building work on the scheme would be delayed.

A quarter of the site has now been landscaped and was opened yesterday by the Lord Mayor of Bradford Coun Peter Hill.

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Bradford Urban Garden, which cost 300,000, has been jointly funded by Bradford Council, Westfield and regional development agency Yorkshire Forward. The project will also see the area developed culturally as an outdoor venue.

Neil Huntington, development director at Westfield,has called the Bradford Urban Garden project a "leading example of how regeneration sites can be brought back into public use until their redevelopment can be implemented with the improvement of market conditions."