As the Westfield development on Broadway continues to march towards completion and its planned opening later this year, it is obvious that the retail landscape of Bradford city centre really is changing for the better.

The shiny new shopping centre will, hopefully, bring more people into Bradford and further encourage yet more development, regeneration and inward investment.

What must not be allowed to happen, though, is that the other, more established, areas of the city centre fall into decline because the retail focus is on Broadway.

Already there have been great strides in ensuring this is not the case. The regeneration of the North Parade area is a particular success story, thanks to the Growth Zone initiative, and work is continuing on the individual and quirky underground shopping and leisure project on Sunbridge Road.

Those are both projects which will hopefully offer something different yet complementary to the High Street names in the Westfield development, and it is only right that attention is now turned to the area around the established Oastler Centre.

Bradford Council is to be commended for its plans to revamp the Oastler Centre and the idea to make it a centre for food, along with an outdoor market and various events, is something that will give this area a much needed shot in the arm.

If this is done correctly, it will help to create a quarter of the city centre that offers something both unique and at the same time allied with the rest of the exciting developments underway, and we can look forward to a resurgent Bradford that, hopefully, offers something for everyone.