What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A public consultation has been launched on proposals to deliver 246 new homes at Meadow Lane in Leeds South Bank, transforming a prominent brownfield site at an important gateway between the city centre and the wider South Bank regeneration area. The proposals comprise a 24-storey residential tower alongside a lower
Safety measures will be needed to prevent high winds swirling around a planned 24-storey city centre flats development. Councillors were told wind “baffles” would be used when early-stage designs for the scheme on land at Meadow Lane were presented. Developer Glenbrook hopes to build 246 flats after an agreement was
More than 240 flats could be built after the council agreed to sell a city centre plot of land to a housing developer. Land at Meadow Lane, near the city’s Aire Park development and the Adelphi pub, could be redeveloped after early-stage plans were drawn up. Leeds City Council chose
Vastint have submitted a planning application to erect four temporary Padel courts at Aire Park on the former Tetley brewery site in Hunslet. The courts, which will be run by Padel Social Club, are planned to last for five years after which they will be replaced by permanent development as
Development plans for a key gateway site in the heart of Leeds’s South Bank have taken a significant step forward. Leeds City Council made the vacant 0.18-hectare plot at Meadow Lane available for purchase last year as part of its efforts to drive regeneration activity across the South Bank. Now
Approval has been given for the first step in bringing about transformational improvements to the area around the Corn Exchange and across Leeds Bridge to Meadow Lane. Leeds City Council’s executive board have formally agreed the £21.5million construction plans required to transform the Corn Exchange and surrounding areas. A further
The creation of a landmark new park in the South Bank area of Hunslet is set to move a step closer at a meeting this week. A request to approve developing the plans for the first phase of a new park to be located on land at and neighbouring the
This great article appeared over on the Beyond Guardian Leeds blog. We know our readers like their local history, so we thought we’d reblog it here. Many of the events took place at the gas works on Meadow Lane (the gas holders are still there), the adjacent Midland Goods Station