Highways works have started while work to build a new permanent entrance for the new £13 million Pudsey Sixth Form College is carried out.
Contractors Caddick Construction are carrying out work on the new college, which is due to open off Kent Road in September this year. The latest scheme of work also includes footpath widening works.
Works will run from February 24 until May 14 from 8am and 6pm daily. Three-way traffic lights will be installed to keep traffic moving.
The move has been met with a mixed reaction on social media.
One local resident said: “I understand work needs to be done however feel this is becoming a very dangerous area double parking outside Kent rd mini market by parents and contractors trying to get out of my road at school time and left turning when children Walk straight out onto the zebra is an accident waiting to happen. Same situation at the bottom of Chaucer when coming down and turning onto Kent road contractors parking opposite the junction.”
Another added: :”As if getting out of Acres Hall isn’t bad enough as it is already.”
Caddick Construction has apologised for any inconvenience the work may cause and thanked local residents for their patience.
Pudsey Sixth Form College will be based next to Crawshaw Academy, on Kent Road, and is being built alongside associated car parking, access roads, and utilities.
Once complete, the teaching block will cater for 600 students aged 16-18.
Delivered on behalf of Luminate Education Group, the new site will expand sixth form provision across West Leeds, adding capacity to the further education facilities at Leeds Sixth Form College, Leeds West Academy, Crawshaw Academy, and Co-Op Academy Priesthorpe, who are all partners of the project.
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