Bradford's worst grot spot was today provisionally named as Oak Lane, Manningham, as the initial results of a survey of the district were revealed.

More than 700 responses from residents across the district have now been collected as part of Bradford Council's drive to clean up the city's act ahead of its bid to become European Capital of Culture.

And Manningham came in for the greatest criticism - featuring twice in the top three muckiest spots.

Leeds Road, one of the busiest commuter routes into and out of the city, was also labelled an eyesore by those surveyed.

And Cullingworth's controversial landfill site made a surprise appearance in the top ten.

Bradford Council sent postcards inviting comments to 200,000 homes in the district with the newspaper Community Pride last month.

Since then, more than 6,000 cards have been returned, with the initial top five calculated from the first 770 responses received.

And already Council bosses, who had branded the project as a war on fly-tipping, have identified trends in the results.

As well as heaps of litter and household waste, respondents have been attacking the appearance of whole roads, pieces of derelict land, and even the state of buildings.

Hit squads are now being deployed to the grimiest spots.

Today Councillor Anne Hawkesworth (Con, Ilkley), executive member for the environment, welcomed the response from the public.

But she said: "Residents need to understand that what we are cleaning up here is not rubbish created by the Council, but by people.

"It is as much their responsibility to keep the district clean as it is ours."

Richard Wixey, the Council's director of waste management and environmental protection, said the survey was revealing clear trends.

"The top three could change as the cards are analysed and comments are added to the database," he said.

"However, having examined the three roads with the highest number of complaints, the problems are clearly not confined to litter and dumping.

"In many cases people have not specified a particular spot causing the eyesore, which indicates they are unhappy with the overall appearance of these roads."

Bradford Council has now moved in to tackle much of the mess - but some sites on private land will take more time to clean-up.

Mr Wixey urged owners of untidy private buildings and land to do their part to improve Bradford's image.

"We will be taking up the eyesores on private land with the owners, which will obviously take time," he said.

"But the state of private buildings is a much bigger issue, and in the end, this is down to the individual owners.

"What we want to do is encourage everyone to play their part and work together by keeping streets clean and tackling dumped rubbish promptly."

The big clean-up was launched after growing complaints of fly-tipping in residential streets and the state of some areas of public land around Bradford.

The final top three eyesores should be known by the end of July.