Work has started to build 25 new council houses at a site on Garnet Grove in Beeston.
South Leeds Life previously reported on the planning application and the views of neighbouring residents whose request of open space within the development was rejected by Leeds City Council.
Apart from providing new homes, will also offer a number of employment and training opportunities including apprenticeships to be advertised locally.
The 19 two-bed and 6 three-bed houses will be built to the Leeds Standard in terms of design and quality, as well as embodying the best in design for sustainability, space and energy efficiency.
The scheme is the latest to begin through the council’s ambitious programme of new build council housing, working with Kier Construction Limited as the development partner across three sites in the city.
The houses are expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
This is good news as the Garnets have looked like a scene from Detroit for years.
It is a great shame that LCC have decided not to tackle the only green space we have at the moment,by the benches,were the drunks and drug dealers hang out.
In my humble opinion,the area is an actual Biological Hazard area now,because of years and years of dog fowling and human fowling since the Pubic toilets were also demolished,then the Pub (with toilets) got changed into a shop,my health has seriously gone down hill since i moved here 16 years ago,just at the wrong time,the houses started to be bought up and boarded up by LCC from about 2005,in the last 11 years i have witnessed so much trouble and ,seeing the heart of a once pretty good community being torn apart,all caused by Leeds Housing Federation, LCC and it`s planning Dept.
76 use-able houses demolished to be replaced with 25,how does this help with the severe housing shortage? ? ? What a joke.
LCC look to of just wasted thousands and thousands of pounds on pointless consultancies,they have a good laugh and then don`t act properly,shame,shame on them.
I could go on,but don`t see any point.