Incommunities to deliver Bradford City Village

Incommunities has signed a legal agreement that unlocks capital from Homes England's Brownfield, Infrastructure & Land (BIL) fund for demolition and enabling works at the Bradford City Village site. The contract, struck with Bradford Council and the ECF partnership of Homes England's National Housing Bank, Legal & General and Muse, covers the first phase of new homes.

Demolition of the former Oastler Shopping Centre will begin in the coming weeks. Wakefield-based contractor Metropolitan Demolition has an eight-month programme to remove the building and clear surrounding plots. Phase one will deliver 97 two- and three-bed townhouses across Chain Street and the northern half of the Oastler site, a mix of shared ownership and affordable rent properties that Incommunities will own and manage.

Construction work on the first homes is set to start in winter 2027 and finish by summer 2029. Later phases add more than 300 apartments on the southern half of the Oastler site and roughly 400 apartments at the recently closed Kirkgate Shopping Centre. Demolition of the Kirkgate site is expected to begin early 2027, after a six-month internal strip out.