An exciting opportunity to work on Transport & Liveable Leeds projects Leeds Civic Trust is recruiting for a one-year post to support a number of initiatives to deliver its Transport Vision, in particular a year-long project Imagine an Excellent Bus Service for Leeds exploring peoples’ experience of bus services in Leeds and how public transport […]
Latest planning news – August A lot of positive things happening and it will be good to see these being delivered. The Headrow is looking good and work on other city centre streets is about to start. The low-carbon District Heating System is spreading its tentacles and cycling & walking are being made easier. There […]
Latest planning news Leeds city centre is slowly coming back to life. Videos of queues outside Primark show that a general obsession with shopping might not go away completely but I can’t imagine returning soon unless I need something vital not available online. What will be the impact of Covid-19 on the retail quarter? And […]
Last month we tried our first on-line developer presentation and, apart from some technical issues, this seemed to go well. We were shown plans for the former Arla Dairies site on Kirkstall Road (next to the Nissan garage halfway between the viaduct and the city centre) where it is proposed to build some 630 apartments […]
Should HS2 be cancelled? The government is conducting a review of the HS2 high speed rail project to connect Leeds and Manchester to London via Birmingham following concerns that costs may have risen to £100 billion; by the time you read this the outcome may be known! The following are my personal thoughts on the […]
Liveable Leeds Competition Would you like to help make Leeds a more liveable city? We have identified an area of the city, currently dominated by roads, that needs to be improved and we would like your help to redesign it. The area is the Eastside of Leeds – the area on the Eastern fringe of […]
October Planning Round-Up The Trust’s Planning Committee continues to meet on a fortnightly basis, although numbers do go up and down a bit through the holiday season – several new members have expressed an interest in joining and have attended ‘trial’ sessions to see how we work. We would still welcome others with an interest […]
