By John Baron
A £2.9 million scheme to revamp the Armley Town Street area could start construction in Spring, Leeds City Council has confirmed.
A public consultation was held in summer 2024 into ambitious proposals to reduce bus delays while improving the street environment for visitors and shoppers with wider pavements, planting and landscaping and more crossing points.
WLD reported in March that parts of the scheme had been revised following concerns from business owners and shoppers.
In an update on the scheme’s progress this week, a Leeds City Council spokesperson said: “The business case for this active travel scheme on Armley Town Street is due to be submitted to the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in December.
“Final designs are currently being worked on with a view to starting construction in Spring 2026.”
Proposals for the scheme include making parts of Town Street bus-only, new cycling and walking links, upgraded bus stops, speed reductions and measures to reduce rat running.
The scheme is part of Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s successful bid of £7.9million from Active Travel England’s Active Travel Fund.
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This is going to put more pressure on the Moorfield Road junction and Armley Gyratory. The gyratory is already a no go zone most times of the day due to congestion.
Good idea in principle, but this is just going to cause mass traffic carnage around the area, it’s already bad enough at peak times, but the council no best when it comes to road planning schemes, most seem to make traffic worse
It’ll take more than a few trees and plants to improve Town Street
Making town street bus only is a great idea as long as the buses are running as they should according to time tables. Nice for it to be pedestrianised as long as we have police presence as it is not safe on town street any time of day. As a none driver, where is all the traffic going to go if not on town street. Just my opinion, waste of money that could be used for more important things.
I agree with you lesley town street is bad news no shops at all
It’s nice to see them trying to Revamp the place as Town St was a Busy place back in the day with Good Shop and Cafes i would always walk into town st on a Saturday with my Mum and Grandmar vist Super C the Dome Cafe and Arcade for a Full English then pay a visit to the weigh save for some Cake Mix and cereal but now then for a Treat Saturday Evening it would be KFC and Blockbuster for a Video Town St hasn’t got that vibe anymore it’s the sort of place to Drive through and Not get out of your Car now
Well what can we say Leeds city council have some amazing ideas, armley town street upgrade, how about resurfacing Whitehall road in new Farnley where the road has been dug up 37 times in 2 years by Yorkshire water and British Gas and is subsiding in numerous places, or maybe not as it will just be dug up again as no one seems to appreciate that the people round here are absolutely fed up with incompetence by the council to insist that the utility companies reinstate to an acceptable standard
Leeds city council is a shambles
After hearing the council had awarded the funds to improve the ward where I grew up, my first thought was you’re gonna need a bigger budget or a tactical nuke. Having moved to a neighbouring ward for over the last 20+ years, I remain hopeful a lot of improvements can be done to make it not only look better, but improve the transport network for years to come.
“Let’s nuke armley” oh no lol ♂️
Armley town street was once a lovely place to shop. Such variety, but now it’s awful. A revamp should start with the people using it. It very daunting even just driving through now let alone shopping there. On the rare occasion I used the now closed Lloyd’s bank I was accosted by some shady characters asking for money. I also noticed quite a bit of anti social behavior. Such a shame for this once nice shopping center.
Will it do any good as am betting a fiver u will get driving through not given a dame would also be nice if the council could bring in one or two new shops English bristh shops chipy decent supermarket even a carpark for the shoppers
Yorkshire shops n’all
Again council goes against public opinion
Do what they want and sod anyone who voices a different view.
Like the approval of a new McDonald’s on Stanningley
The 3 area councillors where opposed to it even and most residents too but council and their Stakeholders got final say
It’s about time councillors realised they are there for the public not Stakeholders
Total waste
Town Street never been the same since they changed the junction with Stanningley road and branch road which local businesses were against but they only listen to the top guys in Highways who has some bright ideas at the best of times.
IE dawsons corner
Waste of £44 million when they are trying to cut car travel, and have a train link that runs same route.
Repair roads first.
These labour run projects take money away from more priority issues.
Then they say it’s someone else’s fault
Biggest set of clowns.
Roll on May 2026
This is why Armley needs a Town Council
People like this guy could organise formal managment at the most hyper-local level and help coordinate with charities the new multi million labour party westminster granted towns improvement fund which is being organised by local charities and groups
All it takes (“all”) is for 1500 people to sign a local Town/Parish Council government petition and the LCC will willingly start the process if there’s strong public support cos it’ll be something worth rewarding our Leeds Labour councillorsnat the very least, even if we all know London Labour HQ in Westminster is a dizzying wuthering mess.
I actually thing this investment and heyaed discussion shows how much people in West Leeds care about their area. Make sure to send in these ideas and suggestions in emails to Leeds City Council civil servants and councillors and to the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, they really do listen to people who send in genuine kind hearted suggestions which come from a good place, even if made and written forcefully or with passion for our area and collective goodwill.
Get involved! Just Google “Leeds City Council and west yorkshire combined authority department public office email contact” and please be kind and thoughtfully persuasive of Sound argument and mind, instead of blind militant frustration st traffic, which as a driver i do get.
Leeds is a modern world class city but with like 18th century default road layout. Bring on the trams!
I cannot believe they are gonna spend that amount of money on a revamp of Armley Town st, Have these people actually spent any time or actually been there at all, There are very few supermarket type shops you can do your weekly shops, Its a street full of foreign shops, who survive purely on the sale of illegal cigs, tobacco and vapes, or supplying the Alcoholics with drink,, until they tackle the underlying issues, It will be a waste of time and money,
This could be a good idea but they are stuck doing what they want instead of sorting out the problems there is right now the last lot of work they did they said it would make it better but it’s just getting worse as time goes on this is the councils idea of wasting money instead of sorting out what’s there already