Kirkstall: Have your say on new council flats proposals

Residents are being urged to have their say on proposals to build new council housing in Kirkstall.

Leeds City Council is hoping to build 20 new apartments on the corner of Queenswood Drive and Spen Lane on the site of the old Beckett Park Community Centre. 

This would be a mixture of one and two-bedroom apartments in a four-storey block. There would be 14 parking spaces and all apartments would be managed and let by the council.

A council spokesperson said: “There is a shortage of affordable housing in the Kirkstall Ward with an average of 448 bids for each home advertised in the local area. The demand is greatest for one and two bedroomed homes which can be best met on the site with an apartment building.”

Posting on social media, Kirkstall councillor Fiona Venner (Lab) said: “Statistically [these are] the size of home that the Kirkstall area needs most. 

“As councillors we’re all very much in favour of this project going ahead, and we hope that planning permission will be obtained.  It will provide much needed housing for our area and will make good use of a previously developed ‘brownfield’ site. “

The Council Housing Growth Team, who are managing the project, are keen to gather views from people who live nearby before putting in a formal application for planning permission. 

An online questionnaire, together with further information on the project, is available here.

Two ‘drop-in’ consultation events are being held at Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club on Wednesday, 2 April from 4pm to 6.30pm and Friday, 4 April from 11am to 1pm. 

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