Bradford South has seen successes and failures in the last decade and is still awaiting a start on the on-off Odsal Stadium redevelopment.

In the meantime homes have been transformed, jobs created and training courses set up .

But the biggest disappointment has been the failure of Transperience to get off the ground at Low Moor.

The £11.5 million transport discovery park opened in 1995 in a blaze of glory, heavily backed by European and Government funding.

By October 1997 it was closed and its exhibits put up for auction. Now parts of the building will be demolished by its new owners and there are plans to turn it into a business park.

But big successes have been seen at Buttershaw, Woodside and Delf Hill estates after the Royds Community Association, which covers the areas, won £31 million from the Government's Single Regeneration Budget in 1995. Other contributions from partners and agencies will increase the total to £108 million

The estates are being changed into three distinct villages, with good-quality homes and a new and attractive environment. Hundreds of previously unemployed people have obtained new jobs on the back of that redevelopment.

A £32 million regeneration scheme in Bierley has meant the demolition of hundreds of sub-standard homes and unpopular bedsits. They have been replaced with new houses to buy or rent in the scheme expected to be completed in 2003.

The Manchester Road area of Bradford South has been picked for a £9 million guided bus scheme, currently being constructed. Super buses operated by First Bradford will run on special tracks down the road, like Scott Hall Road in Leeds.

Bradford Council, which along with the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority is contributing to the scheme is providing traffic-calming schemes in the streets around the route amid fears of rat running from residents.

Talks about a new railway station at Low Moor are continuing since it was first mooted a number of years ago.

And people in Bradford South and the rest of the district have waited in vain for the redevelopment of Odsal Stadium since John Garside's ambitious plans for the £200 million Superdome collapsed.

New developers Sterling Capitol are expected to submit plans for a more modest scheme, said to be backed by Tesco, which wants a superstore on the site.

A high proportion of the people entitled to vote in Bradford South are disabled or elderly and car ownership is relatively low.

The constituency's MP Bob Cryer died in a car accident on his way to Westminster in 1994 and was succeeded by Gerry Sutcliffe, who more than doubled his majority in a by-election.

The constituency is made up of the wards of Great Horton, Odsal, Queensbury, Wibsey and Wyke - ranging from the countryside in Queensbury to the back to backs in Great Horton.