The Leeds City Centre, Town and Local Centres Study has been prepared for Leeds City Council by Colliers International to inform its Local Development Framework (LDF).
The study provides a basis to develop appropriate planning policy approaches for town centre uses within the LDF. The study:
- considers existing town centres within the Leeds district
- carries out “healthchecks” on existing centres looking at the amount of floorspace within centres and how they are performing on issues such as vacancies, rent levels and car parking
- assesses both the amount and quality of retail floorspace needed up until 2016 and forward to 2026, taking into account population growth
- considers how centres may be improved or expanded
- suggests locations for new local centres
The following documents are available on this page:
Leeds City Centre, Town and Local Centres Study Report July 2011
There are no appendices 1-3 and 6 (the full set of published appendices are listed below)
Note: Appendices 8F (Zones 6-10 only), 9A, 9B, 10A and 10B have been updated.
Appendices:
- Household Survey Responses - Available upon request.
- 4A: Plan of Leeds in Sub Region: Yorkshire and Humber Plan May 2008
- 4B: Retailer Requirements Report
- 4C: Breakdown of Crime by type In West Yorkshire: Beatcrime Information
- 5A: Leisure Trends
- 7A: Leeds Hierarchy, Core Strategy Preferred Approach
- 7B: Town Centres, Leeds UDP
- 7C: Town Centre Healthchecks
- 7D: Local Centre Healthchecks
- 7E: Local Centres proposed boundaries
- 8A: Methodology for retail floorspace
- 8B: Technical appendix Leeds Household Survey: Beacon Research August 2010
- 8C: Household survey questionnaire
- 8D: Household survey results
- 8E: Methodology to derive consumer retail expenditure per head by zone
- 8F: Leeds district floorspace data
- 8G: Expenditure per head forecasts: Retail Planner Briefing Note 81: Experian August 2010
- 8H: Special forms of trading
- 8I: Changing store productivities: Retail Planner Briefing Note 81: Experian August 2010
- 8J: Benchmark turnovers
- 9A: Comparison tables Scenario 1 Low
- 9B: Convenience tables Scenario 1 Low
- 9C: Leeds retail commitments
- 10A: Comparison tables Scenario 2 High
- 10B: Convenience tables Scenario 2 High
- Town Centre Maps
If you would like further information please contact: ldf@leeds.gov.uk or tel: 0113 2478092