First White Cloth Hall – Back to its Former Glory After years of neglect plans have been revealed to restore and revive Kirkgate’s First White Cloth Hall. The Cloth Hall owners, Rushbond, plan a sympathetic but striking redesign for the building, retaining and enhancing the archways, introducing a glass atrium and introducing a modern element […]
Temple Mill – Under the Hammer *December Update* Leeds City Council have released a statement indicating the likely costs and repairs needed to restore Temple Works. This makes it clear that any would be buyer would need to be serious about the buildings future before bidding. See their statement here. Leeds City Council – Temple […]
The North Bar Plaque – A Medieval Gateway to Leeds Step back in time with us to medieval Leeds, as today we unveil plaque number 164 for the ‘North Bar’. THE MEDIEVAL BARS OF LEEDS In the Middle Ages the boundaries of the built-up area of the town of Leeds were marked by bars. Leeds […]
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 […]
Trust volunteers survey 3,300 Leeds 'Building at Risk' At the Trust’s ‘Rebuilding our Heritage’ conference I provided an update on the main project the HAR group have been working on over the past 4 years. It all started back in 2013 as an English Heritage (EH) pilot project where they asked groups to trial ways […]
I want to ride my bicycle… Recent Council discussion shows that bike share scheme could soon be coming to Leeds. Like many people, I have taken advantage of bike share schemes to cycle around cities a diverse as Brussels, Washington, Dublin, Aarhus (solid-wheeled bicycles that are “released” by inserting a coin in a slot a […]
Let's Make 2023 Happen! With less than two weeks to go before Leeds officially submits it’s European Capital of Culture 2023 Bid Book, its difficult not to start getting carried away with the possibilities, energy and benefits that this award would give us. The excellently produced Bid Book doesn’t shy away from the challenges that […]
Aarhus, is a very very very fine hus I was delighted to be given the opportunity to attend The Academy of Urbanism’s annual congress, which took place this year in Aarhus in September. Aside from the fact that the Academy of Urbanism has interests which coalesce with those of the Trust (for example development, design, […]
SOYO – Quarry Hill Redevelopment Announced Trust Director, Martin Hamilton was present at the announcement by Caddick of their planned £300 million investment in apartments, hotel, bars and public realm on Quarry Hill. Martin commented: “Quarry Hill is really starting to motor after many years of inactivity. When added to the new City College (already […]
York Stone Thefts York Stone Thefts Blighting Leeds. York stone is the distinctive natural textured stone quarried in Yorkshire that features in much of the paving in the older parts of the city, particularly in places like Harehills, Headingley, Woodhouse, Burley, Armley, Cross Green, Roundhay, Oakwood, Gledhow, Beeston, Pudsey and Chapel Allerton. For some time […]
August Round Up A different format this month as we have not had any formal developer presentations but two quite lengthy internal discussions on our objectives for next year (what does the Committee do and how will we do it?) and on the draft LCT Transport Strategy being prepared by a sub-group of members. We […]
Kiosk or Advertising? Can you remember the last time you used a phone box? How many times have you used one in the last year? I thought so! With almost everyone owning a mobile phone, telephone boxes are fast becoming an anachronism. And yet in Leeds, we have just received 36 applications for new phone […]