Work to start on Leeds Road, Bradford this coming week

The latest Future Bradford newsletter highlights three areas of improvements made recently.

These include a set of overnight works and new wayfinding signage across the city centre.

Overnight work on Leeds Road

A period of overnight work will start tomorrow on the inbound section of Leeds Road, near the Broadway Shopping Centre.

This work, which will facilitate the realignment of a kerb line to widen areas for the new cycleway, is set to be complete by Monday, September 9.

Project bosses say it is taking place overnight to avoid disruption to bus routes during the day. 

Access to the Broadway car park will still be possible, however there will be a short diversion in place from 11:30pm to 5:00am each day.

Map showing the section of Leeds Road which will be closed between 11:30pm to 5:00am for a week (red line shows closure). The diversion route is shown in yellow. (Image: Future Bradford)

New wayfinding signage 

More paving has been laid and the new raised planter unit on Bank Street is almost complete and will be ready for planting during planting season between autumn 2024 and summer 2025. 

Balfour Beatty have installed new wayfinding signs following recommendations from an independent accessibility audit of the project’s working locations and temporary pedestrian routes.

The new signage is temporary, and aims to help guide people along the temporary pedestrian routes to key locations in the city centre. The wayfinding signs will be in place across 11 key routes.

New temporary wayfinding sign in Bradford city centre near the City Hall (Image: Future Bradford)

Change to the permitted service and residential vehicles route

Also from this week, the route into the core of the city centre for permitted service and residential vehicles will see a slight change as work progresses near Hall Ings and Norfolk Gardens.

The new route, will see the entry point moved from Bridge Street to Bank Street via Leeds Road.

Map showing the new route that permitted service and residential vehicles must follow to access the city centre core between permitted hours (Image: Future Bradford) Permitted service and residential vehicles have access to the core between the permitted hours of before 10:30am and after 4:30pm via the one-way system, entering via gate B (from Leeds Road) and exiting via gate A (towards Cheapside).

Market Street car park users must access and exit the car park via gate A. These drivers have been provided a number to facilitate their access through the barrier at gate A.

Construction traffic have continual access to the core and are able to enter the core from all access gates.