Green light for £350m South Bank scheme

A £350m development at Leeds’ South Bank, which will include a 40-storey residential skyscraper that could become Yorkshire’s tallest building, has been given the go-ahead.Leeds City Council’s City Plans Panel unanimously voted to approve the planning application for CEG’s South Bank development yesterday, deferring and delegating sign off to the chief planning officer once final details of the planning legal agreement are in place.The company sought detailed planning permission for two office developments with ground floor retail and leisure totalling up to 280,000 sqft and outline planning permission for mixed-use development of up to 1.1 million sq ft of offices, retail, leisure, hotel, health, education and community uses, parking and up to 750 new homes, along with new public spaces and landscaping.The buildings will range from five to 40-storeys in height, with the tallest potentially becoming Yorkshire’s tallest building. The scheme also retains the listed two-storey printworks building façade.CEG is working with award-winning architects’ practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios).