INAPPROPRIATE shop fronts on one of Bradford’s oldest streets have been removed and replaced with more fitting frontages.

In 2016 there was outrage when the frontage of the former Arensberg’s Jewellers on Ivegate, as well as the front of the neighbouring unit, was pulled down and replaced with a modern glass and metal frontage by then leaseholder Mohammed Afzaal.

It led to an enforcement notice, demanding the modern frontages be removed, being issued by Bradford Council.

Now, after several years, the glass and metal frontages have been replaced with wooden frontages that better reflect the street’s Victorian character.

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The work was done by the new directors of the shops, Madasar Ali of Elite Gadgets and Uman Muhammad of Repair n Go, who were unaware when they took on the units that there was such a controversial planning history.

The owner of the buildings, Robert Marshall Lyons of Sheldon Avenue, London, is due to appear at Bradford Magistrates Court in July to face trial for two counts of breaching an enforcement notice issued by Bradford Council.

The charges relate to notices urging him, as the owner of the two buildings, to remove metal framed shop fronts.