Bradford Squared

[OhYeahOhYeahBaby]

Prefer Leeds, but good luck to Bradford.

[whitbyjet65]

Bradford: The worst road network of any UK city. It's totally shit! The worst drivers too.

[shtookatz]

Ahhh Bradford, the town that bore me and will eventually rob me of my life precious.

[Bignadim]

Back in 1989 I made an appointment to see redvelopemnent of Forster Square with its station and huge shopping mall well the the lift shaft was built for two lift cars and lift shaft had potential for variouse mall levels, well what happened Nothing! ...lift is there on former School street viaduct but No shopping mall development.!!!

[Jaya365]

@Bignadim I used to work in bradford and always wondered what that was for. Seemd a bit weird that it was only there to serve the station when you could just walk down. Bradford like Barnsley where im from has lots of plans and pays a lot of regeneration directors lots of money, but nothing ever comes of them, and the directors and planners move onto the next town and the councils make excuses and hope we forget what they promised.

[binkiie4dictator]

@Jaya365 i agree. Bradford is just another English city that has been robbed blnd by career minded idiots in the council. shame because Bradford has some of the most wealthiest history.

[Bignadim]

Westfield!!!!! they just knocked down a load of crap and will replace it with more concrete and glass crap where`s the yorkshire stone eh ? I really do feel sorry for Bradford and again save Odeon from that councillor who said it not as interesting as city hall and why shuld it be its 1930`s cinema he`s thinking of those shitty tin-can multiplexesand a cinema is needed in every major city

[Damn6Deal6Done6]

Good riddance to BCR. Thieving, lying, wretches. Long live the New Victoria.

[parnol]

what a crock of shit. they knocked the whole of bradford down and now they can't afford to rebuild it. its in worse shape now then it was

[DancesWithFools000]

Where there were once jobs there will be trees!

[billsheet]

bradfore square anit got nothin on my vidgeo the dookier

[vinnieg100]

There's only one color floating around Bradford and thats a light shade of tan.

[vinnieg100]

This video is the product of a fertile imagination and a good marketing manager. The clowns at City Hall are probably ejaculating over it. They have been sold the kings suit by Will Alsop the architect who's out to make a name for himself off our backs and funding. Bet when they realise its all bollocks he'll be long gone with the money. but us, we'll still have our inflated council tax to fund this pipe dream.

Lets get together and stop the rot

[vinnieg100]

What a load of tosh. The reason we didn't get our Broadway centre was because WESTFIELD, the Austrailian conglomerate who were to build it, decided that there was more money to be made in Stratford, London where the government just happen to be siting the 2012 Olympics. Wake up and look around, The coments on here are all correct. I was never asked if I wanted a multi-cultural society, were you? Since 2K London has had multiple olympic stadia ,the london Eye and the Dome.

[wako194]

Who the bloody hell is paying for this. once again it will the people of Keighley, Ilkley Shipley and Bingley. Hoo bloodyray, trying to polish a turd at others expence. yes i am pissed off at Bradford, living in Keighley ive seen the damage the council has done to the outlying district. Anything new has every roadblock imaginable put in its way, time to fill in all Bradford and grass it over, not just the centre

[Debify]

1st thing to do to regenerate Bradford is put up "No Spitting signs"

When the population has understood not to spit then you can move on to the next thing

Fo an advanced notice of the next thing reject all who go to the hospital in order to avoid paying for a prescription which they would have to do if they go to the GP as they well know

[chavikstani1]

start the regeneartion by nuking manningham! ha ha

[MrCiggles]

its reet hard to hear sum1 talkin english in bfd

[odeon2714]

Why is the Odeon Bradford - a fiercely contested redevelopment so signally ignored in this rather swish vid.  Oh and some on the new building portrayed here are hardly an inprovement

[stormfronthero1939]

fuckin ad 39 years a this shit hole ya dont get that 4 murder fulla pakis niggers n general east euro shit get the real picture?

[wiz31391]

still a shithole no matter wat tha do to it

[Bari110]

Let's demolish oops I mean "regenarate" Bradford LMFAO.. Fucking Dick-tating Gloits of councillors n architects I say we drown them in that big lake they showed in the video LOL

[chavikstani1]

arnt you supposed to have shops and restaraunts in city centres what good is a giant fucking park....

[shtookatz]

Who on earth made this unrepresentative junk? There are a lot of white people shown in this video but where are the asians? When I walk through town (though I try to avoid it whenever possible) I can go whole blocks without seeing a single gora (that's what they call whites), just a multitude of mirpuris! But you wouldn't think so from this "film".

[haroon247]

coz no1 wud wanna invest in the buildings haha :L uno wot these goreh think

[cthoneill]

Living in Bradford I constantly feel like a Rice Crispie in a box of Coco Pops

[haroon247]

lmao

[tomjayzen]

lets start a pool goin! in the 1st month how many dead body u bet they find in the massive pond there building around the town hall?

i reackon 4 :)

[juggatheone]

bradford is the future of the uk

[sirfiaz]

This thats reaching a bit dont you lol

[haroon247]

wer in 2009 and the fukers still havent made anyting i live in bradford n the towns shit if u look at leeds city center its got much more towers buh the areas to live in leeds has such worse suberbs lot of counsil houses beeston looks alot worse then anywer in bradford

[REDHATDAYz]

its crap

[decontrol82]

hahaha bradford is never gona be nice!

[Damo3445]

Bradfords a shithole. I should know as I live there!

[mattyme91]

To make bradford successful it needs a decent music venue like 53 degrees did with preston, and then book some decent bands, that will rake in th cash and attract more people to bradford

[DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

not a bad city if you want to go see a film or a play

[Myjobro]

Bradford needs better access by rail to attract businesses. At the moment it seems we are stuck in a backwater and not much gets through to us, as it stops at the main hub which is Leeds.

[PatrickJHooper]

This is a lovely video. A bit optimistic perhaps but the naysayers should note that at a time when the credit crunch is biting harder in other places they are starting to build in Bradford city centre

[MikeHuntagape]

1:09 Law courts exploding ..exploding with scum with no work visa

[Kieranohara08]

This is full of shit

Bradford wont look like this

They cant aford it

Its still gona be same like it is =[

[daviti2002]

I Used to study in Bradford, not that bad city as some say

[bhavvv]

'Lived and grew up in Bradford.... Now live in Manchester, As mentioned the city is a pakistani ghetto.'

QFT. This. I am Indian myself, but the asians in Bradford, not just the Pakistanis but the Indians and whoever else as well have turned the city into a shit hole.

I really do not blame anyone for being racist against us when the majority of the asians here are such pathetic people. I'm thinking of moving to Leeds myself, but I dont mind it in Bradford so long as I never go outside :p

[bhavvv]

I live in Bradford and to me it is nothing but a dump.

I agree with getting out and nuking the place :p

It looks NOTHING like this video shows it, and all those nicely dressed posh people? They are nothing more than characters from a fairy tale compared to the chavs and TP's that litter Bradfords ugly streets.

But still, Bradford has to at least be praised for being an uglier city than the chavs and TP's that inhabit it. The people here actually make it look a lot better!

[TheAtma]

Pissed off P.O.M.E's are fucking hilarious.

[bradmasterflex]

my name is bradford i never knew there was a city lol

[scanipoos]

we are not going to get this now the recesion is here . i prefer Halifax . I went to leed a few weeks ago and couildnt find anything but cafes.I cant walk far Im disabled but didnt expect to not find any shops as such . perhaps their on the outskirts of town

[LUFC896]

im from Leeds but spend quite a bit of time in Bratfud

in ways i prefer it to Leeds

you've kept your heritage like Salt's n lister

Leeds just knocked all of that down and pretty much forgot about the people who made the city what it is

its only the centre in Leeds thats decent any where out of the centre is a fucking dump

WERE ALL YORKSHIRE ANYWAY

[mattyme91]

its not about remembering who we are, its more to do with we cant afford to replace those glorious monoliths from the 1970s. Yeah we do have abitta Victorian architecture but the rest of bradford is tower-blocks and asbestos

[LUFC896]

we've got loads of 60's eyesores still

theres ten times more tower blocks in Leeds than BFD at the moment...outside of the centre leeds is a dump much worse than bfd

[johnyfido]

@LUFC896 You are joking right? fuck leeds centre, its fucked up, you have to drive round the whole thing to get anywhere, shit hole!

[wurble]

Bradford is the 6th biggest city in the UK, and for 2 years the city centre has been a building site, only with no buildings started. Completely and utterly embarrassing. I can't imagine that happening in any other major city. When I'm out of the town/country I feel ashamed to say I'm from Bradford when people ask where I'm from.

[sgtbellfry]

the video reminds me of a darren shan charecter called kernel fleck

anyone know him?

just let me know if its just me who thinks this please haha

[TehGoogie]

lol XD it does remind me of Kernel . ahaha and there's no way bradford town center will ever get that clean.

[lmc1dj]

i live in bradford,i have all my life, i can safely say it is a dump, the bars are shit,all the decent shops have gone,its full of tramps. since leeds got harvey nicholls and the witerose who really ever wanted to go down t bratfurd to shop, besided theres only so many items they stock i need at the pound shop, am not suprised the investers pulled out, bradford has got as much chance of becoming good as the old cinema re-opening. THE ARGUMENT STOPS HERE. BRADFORDS ON ITS ARSE.

[Johnstar78]

here here get all those out that didnt riot and nuke it

[haroon247]

in bradford we got tdf and lemons shed witch sell stuff half the price then i can get in leeds lol

[yorkshireguese]

I'm from Leeds, i have lived in Bradford and in a way i prefer it. The people of this city and its rich and interesting history are the soul of the city. The council and investors need to concentate on these aspects and seek sustainable means of regeneration, not a quick fix homegenous mass of glass and steel apartments and office blocks! As for the tiresome racist views some of you have displayed..you can fuck off!!! as far as i'm concerned anyone who lives in and loves Bradford belongs there.

[Cameltoe90]

Okay, i'm not meaning to be rude when i say this

Well maybe i am

But

When the **** are they going to do this?

This was suppose to be the regeneration project taking place in 2002 (i think) ready for "Bradford 08". So when the hell are Bradford council going to do something about getting it sorted

I live in and around the city. To be honest, it's a ****hole. Especially with the boards up and everything.

They were trying to make it appealing

[MyoldSKOOL]

Your wrong again I'm from penrith I worked down in bradford once with company i was working for

[sd8999]

Its full of immigrants i was there 1 year ago it was like going back in time in places and the rest of it was like pakistan dirty old place

[MyoldSKOOL]

sorry do you not like the truth its a hole ! Its the scruffiest place i have seen don't tell me its not becouse it IS!!! AND YOU NO IT THATS WHY YOUR BEING OFFENSIVE

[Smunh0]

What does livin' in Bradford give You?

a Pakistani accent.

But who'd complain? =\

[MyoldSKOOL]

bradford is a scruffy sh/thole

[steve01274]

I wonder if Bradford Council have ever thought of putting a book together containing all the artist impressions of things that were supposed to be developed in Bradford & never came to fruition

[davita2003]

i used to live in Bradford few years ago it was nice city

[shizzforbrains]

trust me mate, there is no way that the city as a whole will be able to get enough money to make it look like this. it's so boring there that no one comes. i hate it.

[SPBASS]

Lived and grew up in Bradford.... Now live in Manchester, As mentioned the city is a pakistani ghetto. Good luck with this but it will never happen. The city has become hell on earth. Thanks to immigrants and the government for ever allowing it to happen.

[oliboy1122]

its the city of the dead

and DOSSERS

[lavinia1959]

that was realy good well done xx

[scanipoos]

how about some positive comments I WANT bradford to succeed . its my hometown

[jyatha07]

there is nothing positive about bradford -its a lost cause full of losers and junkies.

[trixiewins]

I secound that i was very disapointed its very run down to say the least bit of a dump

[Robabob1342]

Brilliant

[12damianbarlow34]

total rubbish. none of that will ever happen. nobody wants to live in bradford. no companies want to relocate to bradford (even though it would make financial sense compared to unit rent rates in leeds) the council cant attract any business due to general incompitence (except everything a pound and mobile phone shops). its an immigrant ghetto thats only going to get worse. and the worst thing is that im from bradford. gutted.

[montz12]

I live in Bradford Douche bag, It sucks hairy, greased up shite!

[FAWUKG]

Its a waste of time all this, all the thugs and idiots will wreck everything! silly idea 4 the lake aswell!

[steve01274]

AND WE ALL KNOW WHY

[steve01274]

BRADFORD born an breed still live er THIS IS A JOKE ITS A SHIT HOLE

[lineriderdude9999]

wow i live in Bradford..... Ontario :O

[rlglufc]

LOL. That's interesting I live in Bradford (the place in the vid) yet I really want to live in Canada! :)

[kulosek123]

lol not in Canada XD

[BIGNAVBIG]

I doubt this al happen if it does ital take at least 20 odd years the riots that happend didnt even make much damage to the city and they wernt as bad as everyones making it out to be the people who were involed got long centances for doing nowt compared to others in different riots who got less time bradford isnt ging to look like that even if it does it wont look better the building plans look shit compared to surrounding cities such as leeds manchester etc

[Tinag13apoel]

worst place ever -.-

[VivaciousVeronica]

Nice vid but none of that will ever happen to Bradford. It Wouldn't be a big surprise to learn about the money that they said would be spent on Bradford has actually been going into some ones back pocket! Look around the UK at other cities who are regenerating, none of them left a big mess in the middle of there cities for 3yrs. If this had been Manchester, Birmingham or London the government would have got involed and sorted it all out years ago! Bradford's regeneration is turning into a joke!

[HITM4N88]

oki seen as many of you dont have a clue why the building hasnt started yet il tell you at first there were american investers that figured out that hardly any money could be earned from this so the backed out it then took the council a year and a half to find potential investers if you have a look now you'l see that the foundations are in and its going smoothly but till slow

[JUNAID187]

i live in bradford the reason they never made some of the buildings was due to them riots. they had to pay millions of pounds to repair all the damage done.

[HITM4N88]

lol were do you think i live?

the riots had hardly anything to do with it due to the fact it wasnt the council that was putting money into the construction of this

[tyke51]

Bradford centre was kind of beautiful in it's own way in the fifties and sixties, when I was growing up there. It had integrity, all the buildings were Victorian. Why oh why did they devastate it like that? It's a mess now, and it seems there's no going back. I left Bradford thirty years ago, and it's painful to re-visit, all the scenes of your childhood wrecked.

[feverpitch96]

It looked pretty darn decent in Billy Liar! But that was, as we know, nearly 50 years ago.

[Purbina9]

thank god for the rail network, national express and leeds bradford airport.

[snowdenchris]

shit hole

[boaterboyhustler]

They could blow Bradford up and still do £20 quids worth of improvements.

[jungleman1993]

why type in bradford on youtube then u fuckin total waste of time go suck ur mum

[boaterboyhustler]

Because I live in Bradford and I like to know whats going on there! is that ok?

[ecookman]

bradford ontairo??

[boaterboyhustler]

No bradford Yorkshire.

[StrawberryMondays]

Yeah I agree with wot you said totally.. jungleman1993- wtf!

[claudioangelucci]

i vostri video sono più "didattici" dell'angolo retto!!!

[nenouco]

they forgot to show the giant sandpit!

[BCFCloyality]

what a crap video and i live in bradford

[Rustyhatpromo]

pffft no matter how many shit buildings you build here its not going to change it, i live in bradford, and yes its a shite hole!

[snowdenchris]

Fucking Smelly Shithole it wants blowing up. I'm sure plenty of ppl who live there will know how to do it

[beautifulbradford]

Bradford is a noble city.

[imydaking]

bradford sucks so does the uni :(

[beautifulbradford]

I can't speak about the university but I like Bradford.

[britishgoose01]

I left Bradford for 1 year, they had torn down buildings and were ready to rebuild and 1 yr later i got back to bradford and its still the same. They cant afford to build, everything goes to Leeds

[beautifulbradford]

Leeds's "prosperity" is all due to the government's stupid policy of core cities which, instead of trickling prosperity down to the surrounding areas, actually sucks prosperity away. Leeds's wealth is an illusion.

[alohohahi9]

never seen so many whites in bradford before, two thing r good in bradistan, 1st plenty ov drugs 2nd it makes u apriciate ol the other cities

[beautifulbradford]

It's racism like this that's at the bottom of so many people's dislike of Bradford.

[urmumsamilf2]

stfu u lol beautiful bfd its ful ov em

[Spekacek19]

i live in bradford and whatever they gona build in here will lost in shadow of bradistan

[chereadnine]

wait now!!

this actually happened to me..was walking thru centenary square then..ah wait..i remember now..i left the shithole and moved to australia..

[essmbee]

and I moved to Ireland, still love that shit hole though !

[scanipoos]

good if it happens!!. something else to be pulled down in a year or two.

[enigmacharles]

never gna fuckin happen!

[DONOFBD5]

DAT LOOKZ HEAVY

[HSkape]

fucking gentrification process! all they do is put "nice" buildings up for people with money. forget about culture or social work or nice old buildings like the odeon.

[sedes113]

I spent 6 years in Bradford as an overseas student. The city offers the best student life and I have many wonderful memories from my academic-years so the city will always have a place in my heart. On the other hand it is probably the ugliest, most crime-riden and dull city in Europe. Undoubtfully the arsehole of England.

[njam579]

what a load of cobblers,lol

[richard07896]

where are all the burnt out cars and homeless beggars ? And where are all the pound shop, gambling dens and plastic bucket shops ?

[james8692]

Never happens to me when i walk through town

[25208439]

Hmmmm, maybe some of this will happen in 20 , 30 years time? they knocked half our town down and left it in rubble... been there 2 years now? and not a single bit of work done. LAZY BASTERD COUNCIL!

[zaff12]

its gna be ayt but gna hav to wait

[jdee2k7babee]

the big pile of rubbles is wer they noked buildings dwn to build new 1s dik face im bradford born n bred proud mate!!!

[ijr900]

shithole

[ijr900]

lived in bradford all my life,just put the house up for sale,towns a dump, full of povertey,unemployd,immigrants,­thieves,A pile of rubble as city centre,carpet bombingwould be a good thing

[jpaul81]

tw@

[CULAVE]

I visited Bradford on Friday- it is a fascinating city with great character.

[CULAVE]

This is very creative- well done! Im visiting Bradford for the first time on Friday.

[nabz5]

i liv in bradistan n i fink it the best

[pudseypumper]

I worked in the city in 97. Broadway was talked about. I worked there again in 2005. It hadn't moved on. It's nearly '08. Has a brick been laid yet?

[REDRONAN65]

take away all the inner roads in the centre make it safer for mothers and children more stuff for children then maybe people will take there kids shoppin in the centre and if theres things for kids to interact with then it will become more of a attraction...and get some trees and flower beds so in summer it looks nice..........and close that filthy chicken place on bottom of bowling back lane how they get away with having such a stinking place so close to the centre of bradford is criminal.

[challengep]

Hmmm, didn't see the big mountain of rubble that has adorned the city centre for the past two years.

[DirtyJohn]

Watch it again, it's there.

[quietstorm666]

erm... its a lie! lol

[abukiran]

i live in bradford and this seems far fetched. there are no shops left in the city centre and the council is killing off any thats left.The projects get abandened half way because no one has any faith in the city (like the comment above) it can be a beautiful city if the council tried to HELP THE CITY GROW with soild work.its a shame to live in a city that was so special in many ways.

[coreyhealey]

GAY, and BORING......

[MartinHampton]

Here, Here. A load of shit

[volvomantom]

Wow, how unfeasably banal and Leeds-like it will look.

[Matchoo8]

Very good video, certainly gives you that wow factor. I think that bradford is trying to be somthing that its not and never will be. Bradford Council are very good at thinking up Ideas and start to carry out their ideas but they will run out of money! Take the broadway site, how long has that been stood doing nothing, looking like a horrible waste ground - simply because there was no money to fulfil the job!

I'm very unsure of this redelopment - only time will tell of the outcome.

[mysharonauk]

Very Pretty. Good see my council tax has been used wisely, i'd rather have the money it cost spent on providing public services.

SAVE THE ODEON!!!!!!!!!

[jesusknowskungfu]

No point saving the Odeon, it will just get re-used as another mosque no doubt

[MainstreamDesi]

well cool i hope it does

[littlebungle]

Well I'm glad to see we are going to be giving our children terrible buildings that'll need knocking down in 30 years time. I was worried when they started knocking down the ones from the 60's. Knock all the historic buildings down, they are not ugly or soulless enough. Good one Bradford Council.

[GEORGIALOIS]

When I am out of town I'm ashamed to admit that I am from Bradford, the damage has been done, and the culprits get better thought of than most. You don't have to look any further than Maningham Park, voted the best park in the UK and for whos' interest is it in ?? It's embarassing to watch the police turn a blind eye upon blind eye to keep the peace. I feel an outcast in my home town called BRADFORD !!!!

[bijou1963]

well said Spike!

[SpikeDamato]

This is a good, creative video. Your negative comments are being replicated in towns and cities all over Britain, whether in the north or south of the country.

There are more 'white citizens' than others, of course there are, but yes, there are many Asians and Polish too. There is lots of positive regeneration work going on there and the city appears to have a potentially good future - despite what the doom-mongerers appear to say.

[bijou1963]

isnt this supposed to be a comment on the video?

Not a political overview of Bradford in General.

I think its a fab video.

[branchingout]

This film is great tho  :)

[bd15middy]

you no wot i totatly agree with you but at least there trying to sort it out than it being a propa dump, but they do need to sort the immigration out in bradford, when i go in to town i barely see white british citizens its alwasy muslims or turkish or polish..

[benton090775]

if you beleive bradford can become some sort of unique town then anybody who invests there money and time are stupid.bfd is now full of illegal ims . iv lived here all my life i have a 4 week old son and i must say i am very worried about his future.