Visiting members’ sites across West Yorkshire
As part of our continuous work engaging with our members and highlighting the great work they are doing, we visited various sites across West Yorkshire.
We kicked off the visits with a trip to the Climate Innovation District (CID). Developed by Citu, the CID is an £800m project on former brownfield land forming party of Leeds’ major South Bank regeneration project. The District includes hundreds of highly energy efficient homes along with infrastructure such as a school, leisure and office facilities.
We then had the opportunity to visit 54North’s Railway Street site in central Leeds. The project was provided with funding through the Brownfield Housing Fund as well as funding from Homes England and Leeds City Council and will deliver 58 sustainable homes social homes.
Moving on, we hopped on the train to Bradford where we had a walking tour of the Bradford City Village project. The project will redevelop sites in the heart of Bradford city centre to deliver up to 1,000 new homes and create a healthy and sustainable community friendly city centre neighbourhood. Find out more about the project here.
Finally, we travelled across West Yorkshire to Kirklees Council’s Soothill Lane site. This 12 hectare greenfield site is owned by the Council and is being delivered by Keepmoat Homes with funding support from Homes England’s Local Authority Accelerated Construction Programme and the former Local Growth Fund. This project focuses on the use of modern methods of construction (MMC), with 300 units to be completed using MMC – which will help to increase the pace of delivery and the production of higher quality, energy efficient homes.
We are always on the look out for members’ sites to visit as part of our influencing work. Please get in touch if you’d like us to visit one of your sites. After the general election we’ll be looking to engage with a new government and illustrate the brilliant work our members are doing.