Angry families who say their street lost out while the rest of their estate was improved have launched a petition.

Residents of Sage Street, on the Canterbury estate in Little Horton, say their homes are not being improved to the same standard as those in neighbouring streets.

Their campaign has now brought action from Bradford Council.

Local people called a meeting with Councillor Latif Darr (Lab, Little Horton) and housing officials, who have now promised to go back to the drawing board with their plans.

Joan Woolley, one of the petition organisers, said: "We are annoyed because we are not getting driveways or brick walls and pillars around our front garden - we're just getting a fence, which will not stop litter blowing through.

"We also don't have enough space to park cars, all we have is two lay-bys, which take eight cars - and there are 32 houses here.

"If we can't have driveways we want the lay-bys extended, we are happy to give up part of our gardens. We don't see why other streets on the estate have everything and we have missed out."

The homes in Sage Street have been renovated as part of the £16.1 million estate refit, with new doors, redecoration and new-look fenced back gardens.

Residents were initially pleased, but now they want to see the same standard of improvements in the front garden areas. In the current phase of improvements, an average of £6,540 is being spent per property on the estate.

A Bradford Council spokesman said: "We have agreed to investigate the cost of providing more parking bays in Sage Street and the possibility of re-surfacing two pieces of land at the end of the cul-de-sac.

"We are meeting again with residents in two weeks time to discuss these options. Sixteen car parking spaces were installed in 1985 in lay-bys and at the top of the cul de sac."

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