Apartments at 22m flagship city development 'left to rot'

Apartments at 22m flagship city Gatehaus development 'left to rot'

6:00am Monday 3rd February 2014 in News Exclusive By Rob Lowson, T&A Reporter

The award-winning Gatehaus development off Leeds Road

An iconic Bradford apartment building is being left to rot just eight years after it was described as a flagship regeneration project for the city, according to a group of the propertys leaseholders.

The Gatehaus, off Leeds Road in Little Germany, was officially unveiled in 2006 and is now managed by the Cheshire-based property firm, Braemar Estates.

Now, some members of the Gatehaus Owners Association (GOA), all of whom own or lease apartments on the 22 million development, claim the site has fallen into such a state of disrepair that it can no longer attract prospective tenants.

They also claim the building contains serious health and safety risks.

This has been disputed by the firm, which states the building had construction issues when they inherited it, along with a chronic service charge deficit.

Jamil Ashraf, a spokesman for the GOA, said: This is not just about how bad the building looks, there are real health and safety risks for tenants. There is just not enough being done about the problems here. We do a lot of work to try and get the building back up to scratch, but there are huge issues that need sorting out.

We pay a lot of money in annual fees, but the service is not being provided. We invested into Bradford to improve the city, but this building is just being destroyed. Problems arent fixed, they just paper over the cracks.

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