Offices, bars, cafes and a 100-bed hotel complex are coming to Bradford after councillors gave planning permission to a £40 million construction project on a former cinema site.
New Victoria Place, a project from developer Langtree Artisan and Yorkshire-based architects Careyjones, will include a central square and community space in place of the old Odeon cinema.
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A consortium has reached a deal to go carry out the £230 million Bradford Schools Phase 2 PFI Project.
The Integrated Bradford consortium includes Costain, HSBC, Building Schools for the Future Investments and Amey Ventures, and will build four secondary schools for Bradford Metropolitan District Council. Within the campuses of the new schools will be four [...]

A contest to find Leeds’s buffest builders was run by Morley-based firm We Do Trades which helps match householders with tradesmen.
Amongst the winners of the Leeds Builder Idol 2009 contest was RDF’s very own Contracts Supervisor, Graham Mattison.
The hunky handymen will now be flexing their pecs on a fundraising calendar, which will be produced in [...]