No 1 Leeds move for Yorkshire Post Newspapers

THE Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post newspapers are to move from their iconic headquarters to office building No 1 Leeds.

Staff based at the newspapers’ present base in Wellington Street in Leeds city centre will relocate in October.

The headquarters has been put on the market by owner Johnston Press. Staff from the Wakefield Express will also move to No 1 Leeds after the newspaper’s office was also put up for sale by the newspaper publisher.

However, key editorial staff will remain in Wakefield. Johnston Press is keen to sell off offices which are no longer required in order to save costs.

Helen Oldham, managing director of YPN, said: “I am delighted that we have secured  new high profile, quality, city centre premises for our Leeds and Wakefield businesses.

“The move signifies a sizeable investment in our people and will provide an environment in which we can take our highly regarded media brands forward positively.”

The Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post building, which opened in 1970, once housed more than 1,300 staff but now has less than 400 staff based there.

Printing of both the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post, which operate under the Yorkshire Post Newspapers banner, was moved off-site to Dinnington and Sunderland earlier this year and no newspapers are now printed in Leeds.

No 1 Leeds is one of Leeds’s premier office spaces but has struggled to attract tenants over recent years so the letting will be seen as a coup for the address.

The 122,000 sq ft No 1 Leeds, formerly Latitude Red, on Whitehall Road, was sold by its developer BAM Properties to IVG in 2007.