Eye sore Bradford & Bingley building could finally be demolished

In Bingley there stands an eye sore of a building in the form of the old Bradford & Bingley headquarters. The site is owned by supermarket company Sainsbury's, and it looks as though it may finally come down during July.

Sainsbury's has submitted an application to Bradford Council to demolish the Main Street building with a start date of July 14th. Now it's up to the council to greenlight the plan, and we doubt any one is going to object. Local MP Philip Davies has also been pushing hard to get the building demolished.

Source: Telegraph & Argus

Free Asbestos Training Course next week

Working Well Together have a few places left on a free asbestos training course being held next Monday, July 30th.

The half day asbestos awareness course is being run by Focus Safety with places being open on the morning session. To book your place, visit Working Well Together to download and print the booking form.

The training is being held at the Express by Holiday Inn at Vicar Lane Leisure Exchange in Bradford. If you can get there next Monday, it's worth considering for the free training on offer.

Help convict a high reach arsonist and get a nice reward

Vandalism on any scale is both costly and inconvenient for all involved, but when it comes to demolition machinery the costs can be huge and jobs will be delayed or in the worst cases lost.

Thomas Crompton, owner of a Bradford-based demolition firm has recently experienced a very costly arson attack on his machinery and wants to ensure the person responsible gets convicted.

The machine targeted was a new high-reach with a value of £330,000. The arsonist also took the time to break into an office and steal £5,000 worth of computer hardware. All done on a secure site monitored by CCTV.

Mr Crompton has had to ship in a new high-reach from Belgium to continue the job, but is asking for people to come forward with information that would help gain a conviction. In return, anyone providing such information is in line for a reward.

According to Mr Crompton:

We are offering a substantial reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible. We don’t want to let our customers down and we have got a replacement machine coming from Belgium so that none of our contracts are affected.

The arson was carried out at around 9pm on Monday 4th January in Heckmondwike. Anyone with information is asked to contact Dewsbury CID on 0845 6060606.

Source: Telegraph & Argus with thanks to Demolition News