Plans for brewery site redevelopment to support 6,500 jobs

Plans have been lodged for the redevelopment of the former Tetley Brewery site in Leeds. A mixed-use scheme with the capacity to support about 6,500 jobs is envisaged featuring landmark buildings, hotels, homes, shops, restaurants and offices alongside a new city park.Prepared by GL Hearn on behalf of Vastint Leeds, an outline application has been submitted which the developer hopes will create a new urban quarter or neighbourhood within the South Bank area of the city.Included within the plans is space for up to 850 residential units and 915,000 sq ft of business floorspace which it is thought could support 5,720 jobs.There is also 161,500 sq ft set aside for uses including shops, restaurants, bars and take-aways as well as accommodation for financial and professional service providers.Among other eye-catching elements is the provision for two hotels with a total of 400 beds and a five-acre city park centred around The Tetley and framed by mixed use, commercial and residential buildings with active ground floor uses.A landmark hotel building is pencilled in for the junction of Great Wilson Street and Meadow Lane, a key approach route to Leeds city centre from the south as well as in a visible location from the proposed HS2 station.Continuing with the tall building theme, two residential towers are included at the junction of Crown Point Road and Waterloo Street.A further pair of residential towers are lined up between the two areas of City Park.