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Bridging the gap – new footbridge is lowered into place

On 17 January 2019 By Press Release

Sustainable urban developer Citu has reached a major milestone this week with the installation of a 50-metre pedestrian bridge, providing a vital link across the River Aire from Leeds’ South Bank to the city centre. The £1.5m eye-catching structure was lowered into place using a 1000-tonne crane and will link Citu’s Phases One and Two of the Climate Innovation District either side of the River Aire, as well as providing crucial connectivity to communities in Cross

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First residents set to move into Citu eco-homes

On 8 January 2019 By Press Release

Leading sustainable housing developer Citu is celebrating key milestones as it counts down to its first residents moving into the pioneering Climate Innovation District, on Leeds’s South Bank (parts of north Hunslet and Holbeck close to the River Aire). The Leeds-based developer has announced it is only days away from

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Be a catalyst in the Climate Innovation District

On 16 July 2018 By Jeremy Morton

Citu launches Catalyst Programme to ignite sustainable living at UK’s first zero-carbon neighbourhood in Leeds With more than 40 homes already snapped up in the first release of properties at Citu’s Climate Innovation District in Leeds’s South Bank, the developer is going one step further to help residents embrace sustainable

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Green developer Citu hires former BMW boss

On 31 May 2018 By Jeremy Morton

Citu hires former BMW manufacturing boss to head up operations of pioneering low-carbon neighbourhoods Sustainable urban developer Citu has appointed Steve Savage, former manufacturing manager at BMW UK, as operations director to oversee the manufacture and construction of its pioneering Climate Innovation District in Leeds’s South Bank. The appointment is

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Citu are starting a low carbon revolution in Hunslet

On 27 March 2018 By Jeremy Morton

Two hundred years after the first industrial revolution, Hunslet is once again at the centre of a technological revolution. This time in housing construction. Environmentally sustainable homes that most of us have only seen as unique properties on TV’s Grand Designs will soon be rolling off a production line at

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New river bridge for Hunslet

On 13 March 2018 By Jeremy Morton

Sustainable urban developer Citu is forging ahead with plans to construct a new 50 metre pedestrian bridge at Hunslet in Leeds’s South Bank, which will provide a vital link across the River Aire between the two sites of its pioneering Climate Innovation District. The bridge will also connect previously isolated

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Citu is creating a Climate Innovation District in Hunslet

On 10 December 201710 December 2017 By Jeremy Morton

Citu unveils first CGIs for pioneering energy efficient Citu Home as it forges ahead with UK’s first low carbon urban neighbourhood Sustainable urban developer Citu has unveiled the first CGIs and detailed designs for its ground-breaking Citu Home – a new timber framed housing system which will create one of

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South of the River – Down By The River

On 21 July 2017 By Jeremy Morton

What are we to make of Burberry saying ‘no thanks’ to restoring Temple Works in Holbeck? For those who don’t know it, Temple Works is the jewel in the crown of Leeds’ industrial heritage, but we are perilously close to losing it forever. Built in the 1840’s as a Flax

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New eco-homes planned for Hunslet

On 2 October 2016 By Jeremy Morton

Leeds developer Citu have submitted plans for 204 homes on a site between Clarence Road and the River Aire, close to The Royal Armouries museum in Hunslet. The planning application will be considered by the City Plans Panel on Thursday (6 October 2016). The plans are part of Citu’s attempt