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Cross Flatts Park covers an area of 44 acres (17.8 hectares) [22] in the centre of Beeston. While the park formerly suffered from neglect and had a high crime rate, through the work of the Council and community groups such as Friends of Cross Flatts Park and Beeston in Bloom the park has been cleaned up and made safer and more welcoming. [23]
Lincoln Road Flats (8 blocks, 480 flats) Lincoln Road, Lincoln Gren 1958 Constructed by Shepherd Building Group to design by architect RAH Livett. Refurbished 2014–15 with red metalwork repainted turquoise. Existent Roxby Close Beckett Street, Burmantofts 1959 Constructed by George Wimpey to design by architect RAH Livett.
Crossflatts has a crown green bowling club (Bingley Bowling Green Club Ltd, Slenningford) who play in the Worth Valley League and Aire-Wharfe League, two football clubs (Royal and Crossflatts) and a cricket club which plays in the Craven & District League.
The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council.The ward boundaries were last reorganised in 2004. A map of the wards is available on the council website, [1] as is a postcode-to-ward tool. [2]
Park Plaza Hotel Leeds: 1965–1966 77 253 Also called Royal Exchange House. 1973 2005 West Riding House: 1972–1973 80 262 The tallest building in Leeds for 32 years. 2005 2020 Bridgewater Place: 2004–2007 112 367 The first Skyscraper in Leeds. 2020 – Altus House, Leeds: 2019– 116 380 The tallest building in Yorkshire and the North East.
The site was redeveloped by Leeds Development Corporation as Hunslet Green in the early 1990s. [9] Today it consists of low-rise housing, the Hunslet Green Community Sports Club and a small business park. The only remnant of the Hunslet Grange Flats is an electrical substation which remains on the Oval. [2]
Cliffe Park and Western Flatts Park form one large park, though they were once the grounds of separate mansions – Cliffe House and Western Flatts House. The latter was demolished a long time ago, but in the 1930s the former was handed over to the then Leeds Education Committee and turned into a residential school for 'difficult' boys, though ...
There are over 3,300 listed buildings in City of Leeds district (a wider area than Leeds, which includes several other towns such as Otley and Morley). [1] Lists of buildings in the upper two categories can be found at Grade I listed buildings in West Yorkshire (Leeds section) and Grade II* listed buildings in Leeds.