AMEC Developments has submitted a planning application for a 1.6m sq ft (148,640 sq m) regeneration scheme in the Aire Valley Employment Area to the south east of Leeds.
The application covers the first phase of a proposed 10m sq ft-plus (929,000 sq m) regeneration programme.
Late last year AMEC acquired exclusive development rights to the 125-acre (50.6ha) greenfield site, which is owned by Lord Halifax.
The plans comprise new employment space including offices, industrial and distribution space, alongside a hotel, crèche, shops and leisure.
AMEC senior development surveyor Mike Smith said the distribution of the commercial and leisure elements would be the subject of later negotiations with Leeds council.
Smith said: “We have put a marker down for subsequent discussion. I am sure there will be demand for the amenity uses.”
The 2,700-acre (1,093ha) Aire Valley employment area (AVEA), which forms part of Leeds’ Unitary Development Plan, is being targeted as the city’s main zone for employment development and one of Yorkshire’s largest-ever regeneration projects.
Lord Halifax’s Halifax Estates will sell the 125-acre (50.6ha) Pontefract Lane site, which forms part of AVEA, on a phased basis to AMEC as it develops out the offices, industrial, distribution and amenity space.
References: EGi News 12/02/04
