Bradford Forster Square Station renovations to start in 2023
£17.3 million worth of improvements are set to be made
£17.3 million work to improve Bradford Forster Square Station, which was already delayed before the pandemic, is to finally begin in 2023.
Bradford Council says the delay is due to many of the staff that would have worked on the major transport project being “redirected” to deal with pandemic response work.
Plans including a new station building, better lift access and shops and cafes in the station’s unused Victorian arches, were first revealed in 2017.
The original timetable was for the work to be completed by March 2021.
But in early 2019 it was revealed that the completion date had been pushed back to December 2021 due to “insufficient expertise” within the Council to draw up an “invitation to tender” - a document that would encourage constructions companies to apply to carry out the work.
The new station building would incorporate the arches behind the station, and the new lifts which would provide better, more reliable access to Cheapside and Manor Row in the top of town area of the city centre.