A Leeds group is aiming to spark a wider debate about the future of land to the south of the River Aire - and is inviting Leeds residents to have their say.
As Leeds council launches its own consultation into the planned redevelopment and city centre park on Leeds South Bank, an independent Leeds group is aiming stimulate a 'once-in-a-lifetime' debate about the future of the area.
The Leeds Sustainable Development Group has launched a discussion on its website entitled Leeds City Centre South: The Long View.
The organisation wants to promote a debate about the area in its widest sense.
Its website says:
"The current economic circumstances and pause in development provide a huge opportunity to rethink and expand a longer term strategic vision for the city centre.
"We believe that greater public and stakeholder engagement would deliver a different kind of development in the future. Innovative ideas relating to the flood alleviation scheme, a new City Living Survey and the Leeds Civic Trust's 2009 discussion document 'Leeds City Centre Transformed' have all sought to explore alternative outcomes to the established approach."
The group's spokesman David Lumb, talking on BBC Radio Leeds, said:
"We want to look at the river in a global way, to look at a vast area... regarding all the land south of the river right over to Hunslet Road and beyond."
The Leeds Sustainable Development Group is a network of individuals, including property professionals, developers, investors, academics and community groups, who share a commitment to Leeds city centre and want to work together to make it better.
For more details and to join the debate, click here.
