Trial date set over Bradford student accommodation hot water issues

Students had been staying at All Saints Hall without a "satisfactory supply" of hot water for about five months, court documents said

Update 13th June: On the 14th September 2023 the case against Haris Akhtar was dismissed at Bradford Magistrates' Court.

Two men and two companies are due to go on trial next year after students were said to have been left without hot water for months.

All Saints Hall and Trinity B hall at Laisteridge Student Village in Bradford is said to have had the issue between 13 May and 1 October 2021.

Haris Akhtar, Bhupinder Chohan and the two firms are accused of contravening or failing to comply with a council abatement notice.

They are due to go on trial in April.

Hill and Standard Development Ltd had an office at the Laisteridge Student Village in Bradford

Mr Akhtar, of Laisteridge Student Village, and Mr Chohan, of Keats Way, London, have been charged alongside London-based businesses Hill and Standard Development Ltd and B and M Properties Ltd by Bradford City Council.

Court documents show the charges relate to the maintenance of a gas supply at the student accommodation meaning there was not a "satisfactory supply" of hot water in the kitchens or bathrooms, contrary to the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

On Tuesday, Bradford Magistrates' Court heard the trial is due to start at the same court on 20 April 2023.