WORK on the second phase of a multi-million pound redevelopment of a rundown estate is set to be completed by the end of this year.

The current section of the project to transform Chain Street, once dubbed 'Death Row' because of its decaying state, involves the ongoing development of 32 homes built on the site of outdated blocks of flats.

Of these homes, 10 are being built at Baptist Court for social housing group Incommunities by contractors Barnfield Construction.

Those homes, which are three-bedroom properties, have all been taken on by tenants.

This phase also includes ten homes for sale through Barnfield Construction and 12 homes for private rent, managed by Incommunities for housing provider QSH.

The first of the dozen rented homes will be completed in the next few weeks.

Bradford Council has pumped £374,000 into the project through capital support, while the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has provided a grant of £234,000.

Geraldine Howley, Incommunities group chief executive, said: "These new homes complete another piece in the jigsaw to transform the historic Chain Street and Goitside quarter.

"We are delighted to be working with the Homes and Communities Agency, Bradford Council, Barnfield Construction and QSH, to release these latest properties for local people."

A linear park, situated on the outskirts of the housing development, is also planned and should be completed by Bradford Council by March next year.

Councillor Val Slater, Bradford Council's executive member for housing, transport and planning, said: "The good progress on site marks an important stage in the regeneration of the Goitside area and the wider city centre."

An Incommunities spokesman said: "Phase two is due to be completed in December 2015."

Mohammed and Bibi Khan have moved into one of the rented homes at Baptist Court with their two sons. They applied for the property through Bradford Council's Value Based Lettings system.

Mr Khan said: "We are very proud of our new home.

"It is spacious and it's lovely to have our own garden for the first time.

"It is so quiet and peaceful and our neighbours are great.

"I was brought up around here in Manningham and the Chain Street area is so much better now with all the new homes."

The project's first phase, built in 2013 through Incommunities, Bradford Council and the Homes and Communities Agency, saw 36 outdated flats off Chain Street and Roundhill Place remodelled into 16 larger homes.

For this stage of the project, Incommunities converted two blocks of these hard-to-let bedsits.

The former eyesore area had once become the haunt of prostitutes, drunks and drug users.

In 2011, Incommunities secured a £960,000 grant from the Government's Homes and Communities Agency for the Roundhill Place and Chain Street development, as well as an additional £100,000 from the Council's Empty Properties Programme.

The cash funded the demolition of the derelict U-shaped block of flats, which took four weeks to complete in 2012, the refurbishment of two blocks and contributed to the building of the first ten affordable homes.