Save the Odeon campaigners should learn within the next fortnight whether their final attempt to have the building listed is successful.

They hope that if the Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport agrees to protect the 77-year-old landmark, it will stop it being demolished and the site developed.

But five previous attempts to have the building listed have failed and everything is on hold until the DCMS make their decision.

Norman Littlewood, chairman of the Bradford Odeon Rescue Group, has petitioned Bradford Council over the matter.

A report for the regulatory and appeals committee into the Odeon states that an earlier request for a Building Preservation Notice was deferred while the DCMS decided whether the building should be listed.

In the meantime, owners Yorkshire Forward, which bought the building for £2 million in 2003, gave a guarantee they would not undertake any further work.

The cinema and bingo hall, which closed in 2000, is earmarked for demolition as part of a £55 million New Victoria Place scheme.

And a planning application for the mixed-use development of offices, apartments and a hotel has also been put on hold.

The design by Langtree Group, Artisan and Carey Jones Architects, was chosen in a design competition run by Bradford Centre Regeneration, and would see the former Odeon cinema and its twin towers demolished.

The Council's own conservation area assessment for the city centre, into which the Odeon site now falls, says "the twin domes are its most interesting feature and do make a positive contribution to the streetscape in this part of the conservation area".

But it goes on to say that "the building itself is not considered to be of exceptional quality" and that a new building of "modern, high quality, design could make an equally, if not more impressive contribution to what is a key site".

The Council's report into Mr Littlewood's petition will be heard at a meeting on Wednesday at 10am in City Hall.