2025 - 26 promises to be an exciting year for our district, as we will see the completion of the new Keighley Fire Station and the refurbishment of Bingley Station. These significant infrastructure projects reinforce our commitment to innovation and modernisation, ensuring state- of-the-art facilities for our fire crews and ultimately, allowing us to strengthen our effectiveness and efficiency for the people of Bradford.
Partnership working continues to be the cornerstone of our risk reduction activity. The Bradford Community Safety Partnership is a multi-agency collaboration that shares a vision. This centres around giving people the best start in life, reducing vulnerability, and making people feel safe in their community.
Fire crews will focus on education and engagement, on areas such as water safety, road safety, and wildfire prevention. We remain committed to supporting the Vision Zero strategy, ensuring we reduce road traffic incidents and ultimately aim to eliminate road deaths. Our firefighters and Youth Intervention team have delivered amazing initiatives over this last year and will continue to invest in Schools and colleges, ensuring young people are receiving education, to keep themselves and their families safe. Bradford remains the youngest city in the UK with more than 26% of its population under the age of 18 yrs, and therefore we support the districts vision of Bradford being a wonderful place for young people to thrive, grow up, live, and work.
Our firefighters are highly skilled, professional, and remain focused on driving down risk in the community. Their commitment to training and exercising remains a priority, ensuring they are 100% prepared to respond to incidents. The learning outcomes from the Grenfell enquiry remains a key priority over the coming year, focusing on the safety of those who reside in tall buildings and the safety of firefighters attending incidents of this type.
Finally, Bradford celebrates City of Culture in 2025. The city will showcase its extraordinary cultural heritage of its ethnically diverse population, and we will come together with partners over this next year to promote this achievement and continue to push out our key safety messages. It also fitting that we will join the people of Bradford and pay tribute to the 56 victims of the Bradford City Fire disaster, on its 40th Anniversary.
The Bradford plan demonstrates a firm commitment to community safety, partnership collaboration and our overarching ambition of making Bradford a safer place to live.![]()
