THE owner of a derelict building in Manningham has been served with a legal notice to work on making the site safe.

The large former Lund Humphries building on Priestman Street is currently just a shell, having suffered from years of vandalism and fire damage.

In 2017 Bradford Council’s Bradford West Area Committee discussed the building, which they described as dangerous and a magnet for anti-social behaviour. They urged the owners to demolish the building, once owned by the lund Humphries printing company.

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A few months later, Mohammed Bashir was granted permission to demolish the building and level the site.

However the building still remains standing, and this week the Telegraph & Argus asked Bradford Council for an update on the site.

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A Council spokesperson, said: “We have been working with the site’s owners for several years in an attempt to make it safe and bring it back into use.

“The Council has now served a legal notice on the landlord to carry out certain works.

“We are committed to sorting out these problem buildings which have plagued the area for years.”

At the Area Committee meeting in 2017 members spoke of their concerns that public money was regularly being wasted due to fire crews being called out to the site.

They had been told that the building, which is in the middle of an area of houses and primary schools, had been fire-damaged in separate incidents and, other than fencing off the site, the owner had carried out no remedial works.

Much of the building's roof has been lost due to fire damage over the years.

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