CEG’s South Bank masterplan under spotlight
THE developer behind the ambitious plans for the South Bank in Leeds is holding a public consultation event this weekend to outline its vision for its 5.86 acre landholdings.
The event will form part of the Leeds Waterfront Festival, with entertainment and activities provided for children, as well as the opportunity to review exhibition boards about the proposals and discuss them with the development team.
CEG says it is committed to delivering dynamic new places in Leeds and is on-site delivering its £400m Kirkstall Forge development where a new railway station opened last week in anticipation of the arrival of 1,050 new homes and 400,000 sq ft of offices, shops and leisure facilities in the wooded riverside setting.
At South Bank, the proposals include ideas such as:
• Improving connectivity – to make it easier and more attractive to walk or cycle from Holbeck to and through our development towards the nearby railway station and the city centre
• Providing a wide range of new local job opportunities in business spaces, cafés, bars, restaurants and shops and, akin to its Kirkstall Forge development, CEG is proposing to work in partnership with Employment Leeds to provide on-site training, education, upskilling and apprenticeship opportunities during construction to benefit local people
• Creating a safe, family-friendly environment where families can live and visit – including well-designed family apartments, green spaces and public plazas that are appealing and well-lit
• Delivering a new world-class location for the south west of the city centre that combines living, working, shopping, eating and drinking with attractive places to walk, rest and enjoy
This is the first of several community consultation events the company is planning in and around Holbeck.
Jon Kenny, director of CEG, said: “The whole of South Bank, Leeds has the potential to double the size of Leeds City Centre – this is something no other UK city has the capacity to achieve. Our site at CEG: South Bank can provide a new gateway to the city from the south west, as well as improving links from Holbeck to the station and the city.
“It is an incredibly exciting and ambitious project, we want to draw from inspiring architecture in order to realise our ambition to create an incredibly high quality new built environment with landmark buildings befitting of a city centre gateway location. We are at a very early stage in the process and hope people from Leeds come along to the event this weekend to discuss the emerging proposals and provide their ideas.”
The event will be held in CEG’s building on Globe Road, opposite Tower Works, on:
• Saturday 24th June 2016 from 12 noon until 4pm
• Sunday 25th June 2016 from 12 noon until 3pm
