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Madeleine Kenning, Councillor Peter Carlill and Kevin Busby.
5th June 2026
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Major milestone reached for new Leeds council housing development

The first tenants have moved into a new council housing development which will deliver dozens of affordable homes in a Leeds community. Construction work began in late 2024 on the Hough Top scheme in Swinnow, near Pudsey, where 82 houses and apartments are being built on the site of a former school. The Leeds City…
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Leeds Jewish Housing Association
3rd April 2026
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Leeds Jewish Housing Association honoured at Civic Hall for outstanding tenant satisfaction

Leeds Jewish Housing Association has been recognised at Civic Hall after achieving outstanding tenant satisfaction results, with residents praising the quality of its homes, services and community impact. Leeds Jewish Housing Association has been praised by the city’s Lord Mayor after delivering strong resident satisfaction results and continuing its long-standing work to support communities…
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Some of the 100 family homes built as part of a housing development in Middleton
16th August 2024
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Leeds Sets National Example with Housebuilding Success

Recent data has highlighted significant progress in Leeds’ efforts to develop the quality housing that its residents need and deserve. Over the past year, ending in March, the city constructed 4,441 homes — its highest output since the early 1980s and 35% above the local target for the year. Of these, more than 650…
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Councillor James Lewis and Councillor Jess Lennox
16th August 2024
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Leeds Celebrates Grand Opening of Community-Focused Housing Scheme for Seniors

Middleton’s Gascoigne House, a highly commended extra care housing scheme, has reached a significant milestone, greatly enhancing the lives of older residents in Leeds. Since opening its doors in October of the previous year, it has provided seniors with the chance to live independently, offering essential on-site support as needed. All 60 apartments at…
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Beechwood Primary School pupils Oliver Doherty, Summer Beetham and Katana Maynard
19th July 2024
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Leeds Schoolchildren Honor Local Swimming Legend Doris with New Council Housing Development

Leeds schoolchildren have contributed to a new council housing project by celebrating a local sports hero with a special tribute. The Brooklands Avenue development in Seacroft, constructed by Wates Construction for Leeds City Council, features a five-story apartment building. In a community engagement effort, students from Beechwood Primary School in Seacroft were invited to…
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UNCLE Leeds_External
5th April 2024
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Brand new state-of-the-art apartment block arrives in Leeds

Popular rental brand UNCLE is opening its highly anticipated first building in Leeds. UNCLE Leeds will offer 463 brand new apartments for renters located on Whitehall Road in Leeds city centre. With a strong presence in Manchester and London, UNCLE is bringing its mission of ‘taking the lord attitude out of being a landlord’…
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Councillor Mohammed Rafique, Andrew Brier, Carol Thomas.
15th March 2024
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Warm glow for residents as £25m energy efficiency scheme delivers results

Hundreds of council flats in Leeds are set for a carbon-cutting, money-saving future thanks to a £25m energy efficiency improvements scheme. Energy and regeneration specialist Equans began work in late 2022 on the transformation of seven tower blocks as part of Leeds City Council’s drive to deliver high-quality homes while also tackling fuel poverty…
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Councillor James Lewis, the leader of Leeds City Council, and Councillor Jess Lennox
2nd February 2024
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Building for a bright future as work starts on new council homes

Construction work has started on a scheme that provides further proof of the burgeoning success of Leeds’s Council Housing Growth Programme (CHGP). A total of 88 new homes are being built for Leeds City Council across a number of brownfield sites in Seacroft and the Ambertons area of Gipton. In Seacroft, 25 one-bedroom apartments…
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An aerial image of Gascoigne House with some of the family homes and accessible bungalows that form part of the wider redevelopment of the site.
1st December 2023
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Council housing programme is delivering affordable homes with heart and soul

A newly-completed extra care housing scheme has been hailed as a warm and welcoming symbol of Leeds City Council’s commitment to providing quality homes for local people. The flagship Gascoigne House scheme, on Middleton Park Avenue in Middleton, has 60 apartments for older people who need on-site care and support. The new apartments, which…
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An image showing plans for the redeveloped Sugar Hill area of Oulton.
17th November 2023
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Residents and councillors mark major milestone for affordable housing scheme

Leeds Federated Housing Association brought residents and councillors from Leeds City Council together at a ground-breaking event for its latest affordable housing development in Oulton. Partly funded through Homes England’s Strategic Partnership with Accent Housing, as part of the Government’s Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) 2021-26, the regeneration of Sugar Hill Close and Wordsworth Drive…
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Bailey Towers
13th October 2023
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Senior councillors set to agree demolition of six high-rise buildings

Members of Leeds City Council’s executive board are set to approve plans to rehouse residents and demolish six high rise buildings, across Leeds. The six tower blocks, initially constructed in the 1960’s, have exceeded their original design life, and would require significant investment for them to be brought up to an appropriate standard to…
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Leeds Homelessness
28th July 2023
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Senior councillors in Leeds agree new strategy to tackle homelessness

A refresh of the Leeds homelessness and rough sleeping strategy has been approved by senior councillors, reinforcing the council’s ambitions to ensure that Leeds is a compassionate city where services work together to prevent and relieve homelessness. At meeting of Leeds City Council’s executive board at Leeds Civic Hall, councillors approved the report that…
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Unity Housing Association
7th July 2023
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Unity Chair praised after winning Women in Housing Award

Shruti Bhargava, Chair of Leeds-based housing association Unity Homes and Enterprise, has been named Board/Committee Member of the Year at the Women in Housing Awards. She received her award in Manchester at the opening ceremony of Housing 2023, the Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual conference and Europe’s largest housing festival. The Women in Housing…
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Councillor Jess Lennox and Gerard Tinsdale
16th June 2023
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Work begins to demolish tower blocks in Killingbeck for future development

Demolition of the Highways tower blocks and maisonettes in Killingbeck has begun this week, marking the first step towards the development of new social housing on the site. Following positive engagement work with the few remaining tenants on site, the flats and maisonettes are now vacant allowing for the demolition work to start. Connell…
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External Wall Insulation Leeds
11th February 2022
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Leeds City Council receives funding to make hundreds of homes warmer by boosting thermal efficiency

External wall insulation is a great alternative when looking to improve the insulation of a building, reducing heat loss and improving the building envelope. 630 properties in Leeds will see improvements in their energy and thermal efficiency thanks to a £9.6million grant from the government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund. The funding will be used to…
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Middleton Skills Centre
3rd December 2021
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Work begins on £40m new affordable council housing development in Leeds

Work has now started on a £40million council housing development which will see the regeneration of Throstle Recreation Ground and the former Middleton Skills Centre in Leeds. The project off Middleton Park Avenue is one of the largest being undertaken as part of Leeds City Council’s Housing Growth Programme and will be made up…
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Leeds City Tower Blocks
21st May 2021
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Council housing project claims top regional green award

An innovative green Leeds City Council housing scheme has scooped a top regional award. As part of the Northern Housing Awards 2021, the council fought off tough competition from a shortlist which included other local authorities and leading organisations in the housing sector to claim the ‘best carbon reduction scheme/innovation’ prize. This follows the…
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