Residents in privately-owned former council homes say they are missing out on improvements to driveways at council-owned properties - which are being carried out as part of a £100 million investment.

Bradford South MP Gerry Sutcliffe is in talks with ministers about changing the rules which say that families who have bought their council homes lose out on regeneration schemes.

Jayne Clayton and her family, who bought their former council house at Woodside in Bradford, have to watch in envy as neighbours in Council-owned homes drive over dropped kerbs onto their new driveways.

Mrs Clayton and her family are forced to drive across broken paving stones onto a path they dug out themselves in a grass verge - leading them into a driveway which cost them hundreds of pounds to have built.

And now they say Bradford Council has added insult to injury by ordering them to replace the paving stones it claims they have broken.

But the family is refusing to take the blame and says the damage was done by contractors carrying out improvements on the rest of the estate.

The family lives in a block of four former council houses which people have bought in Fenwick Drive.

They say they have been left on an island while neighbours just yards away reap the benefits of a massive cash award from the Government's Single Regeneration Budget. The Single Regeneration Budget (SRB) cash - which with matching funding totals nearly £100 million - covers schemes on Woodside, Buttershaw and Delph Hill estates.

The family says it wants dropped kerbs and parking bays because the Fenwick Drive homes are on a bend.

Mrs Clayton, 29, a warehouse operator, said: "It is very difficult for us to get in and out, but we didn't break the paving stones.

"We've asked for dropped kerbs but have been refused. Houses practically next to us have had the work done."

Mr Sutcliffe said: "There are instances where private families can sometimes be helped but I want the whole thing tightened up.

"In these cases I do think these families should get dropped kerbs.

"It is very difficult for them because the houses are built on a bend and they shouldn't have to park on the road."

Peter Eccles, chairman of Royds Community Association, which is spearheading the regeneration programme, said: "The families asked for parking facilities, but we are not allowed to help them because they are owner-occupiers.

"The issue of the flagstones seems a nonsense and if contractors caused the damage the family shouldn't have to pay."

A Bradford Council spokesman said the Council would look into the complaint about the paving stones.