The chairman of an organisation representing city centre traders has resigned after councillors unanimously approved a drug rehabilitation unit in the city centre.

Jeweller Jeff Frankel, who has headed Bradford Retail Action Group for more than 20 years, quit in protest over the decision to allow former offices at Fountains Hall, off Rawson Road, to become a drugs unit with a surgery for two GPs and pharmacy.

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