A start has been made to a major £5million programme of improvements to town centres and high streets across Leeds. The work on buildings, public realm and highway improvements is part of Leeds City Council’s Local Centres Programme to support businesses and enhance the urban environment of important local shopping and services. Since the…
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A former Victorian bakers at the heart of one of Leeds’s oldest streets has been given a new lease of life thanks to a major regeneration scheme. Project bosses and developers used their loaf to revamp and revitalise the empty building at 90 Kirkgate as part of the innovative Lower Kirkgate Townscape Heritage Initiative…
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A project to transform one of Leeds’s most important heritage assets could be set for a major funding boost thanks to an innovative, Heritage Lottery funded project. Plans to revitalise the First White Cloth Hall were approved by the City Plans Panel earlier this month and would see the Grade II* Listed hall’s west…
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Leeds City Council and Meanwood Valley Partnership have been jointly awarded £65,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the Meanwood Valley: Wilderness on your Doorstep project. Starting next month, the project focuses on celebrating the rich natural history of the Meanwood Valley. The Meanwood Valley has long been celebrated as a ‘green artery’…
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A former cloth merchant’s house in one of Leeds’s oldest streets has reached the vinyl frontier thanks to an exciting regeneration project. The building at 93 Kirkgate reopened last week as The Doghouse café and bar, with Paula’s Vinyl record shop above it, after receiving a grant through the Kirkgate Townscape Heritage Initiative. The project…
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A historic Leeds building has been restored to its former glory thanks to an innovative heritage project. The former Mike’s Carpets building in Armley, now MC Carpets, has been rejuvenated as part of the Armley Townscape Heritage Initiative, a joint grant scheme between Leeds City Council and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The well-known building,…
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A former trainee on an innovative Leeds City Council heritage and construction skills programme has claimed a prestigious industry prize. After finishing second last year in the national finals of the Construction Industry Training Board’s Skillbuild Show while a participant on the council’s ‘Re-Making Leeds’ scheme, Ameha Shewaye Bantiwered, 39, has now gone one…
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A new book exploring the history of the oldest street in Leeds is set to be launched later this month. For the first time, readers will be able to trace the history of Kirkgate, which was part of the foundation of modern Leeds, in the book that will be available for sale at Leeds…
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The new intakes on an innovative heritage construction skills trainee initiative have been officially welcomed on to the programme this month. Following a special ceremony held at Leeds Civic Hall this month, 17 trainees will now begin work-based training as part of ‘Re-Making Leeds’, which over the next year will offer the opportunity to…
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