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2 | Invitation to Tender <strong>THE</strong> <strong>BREWERY</strong>, <strong>LEEDS</strong> | 3<br />

The brewery site is one of the largest sites<br />

that will ever become available in Leeds City<br />

Centre and is without doubt the best.<br />

Deliverability<br />

of Proposal<br />

1.1 Name of the Proposed Purchaser or Purchase Vehicle<br />

A Pears family company.<br />

1.2 Our Vision for the Redevelopment of the Leeds<br />

Brewery Site and how this Reflects the Aspirations<br />

of Carlsberg UK<br />

1.2.1 Our Vision<br />

The brewery site is one of the largest sites that will ever become<br />

available in Leeds City Centre and is without doubt the best. Its size<br />

and strategic location provide the ingredients for a development<br />

that has the ability to both build on and drive forward property<br />

markets in Leeds for a generation. We need to recognise and<br />

respect this potential.<br />

Significant work has been carried out by Leeds City Council in<br />

relation to their vision for the Brewery site and the South Bank as<br />

a whole. This is principally set out in the 2011 South Bank Planning<br />

Statement and the emerging Aire Valley Leeds Area Action Plan.<br />

This vision is built upon the ambition of the former Leeds City<br />

Architect, John Thorp, who joined the City Council in 1996 and<br />

during his time in office undertook a rigorous analysis of the<br />

Leeds city area with a view to mapping and providing a strategic<br />

framework for the renaissance, evolution and growth of the city. Key<br />

to John’s vision was the laying out of a large city centre park. Leeds<br />

has some of the largest municipal parks, and the greatest amount<br />

of green space per head of population of any major city. However,<br />

due to its evolution as an industrial city, most of these green spaces<br />

are located outside the centre as historically the wealthier people<br />

didn’t live in the dirty, noisy industrial centre. They preferred to live<br />

in the cleaner and quieter suburbs and villages surrounding the city.<br />

John’s aspiration was to provide a public park in a central location<br />

in an emerging part of the city. In doing so John hoped to provide<br />

the city centre with a facility to, amongst other things, increase its<br />

attractiveness as a residential location. John wanted to encourage<br />

people and families to live in the city centre.<br />

Another consequence of Leeds’ industrial heritage is that the<br />

city didn’t develop the infrastructure necessary to support the<br />

full complement of residential options in the city centre. At the<br />

same time as John Thorp was envisaging the growth of the city<br />

through his famous “flower diagrams” and exploring the benefits<br />

a park could bring, other groups such as the Leeds Sustainable<br />

Development Group were promoting the incorporation of primary<br />

and secondary education in the city centre to introduce the<br />

infrastructure required to further make the city centre an attractive<br />

place for families to locate. Such moves have successfully resulted<br />

in the relocation and consolidation of Leeds City College, the<br />

relocation of the College of Building and the establishment of the<br />

Ruth Gorse Academy, which will be one of the country’s largest<br />

secondary schools, serving 1,500 pupils and which is scheduled<br />

to open in September 2016. Whilst we have been preparing this<br />

document an announcement has been made that a University<br />

Technical College (UTC), to provide vocational education for<br />

600 students aged 14-19 with the curriculum focused on science,<br />

technology, engineering and maths, will open in September 2016<br />

located at the Braime Pressings Factory a short walk from the<br />

Brewery Site on Hunslet Road. All these educational initiatives are<br />

now located or locating in the South Bank area and will transform<br />

the areas credentials as a realistic and viable location for family<br />

housing. High profile influencers include people like Rachel<br />

Unsworth of the University of Leeds whose work on creating the<br />

right socio-geographic environment to allow a post-industrial city<br />

to thrive has informed these policies and this ambition generally.<br />

John’s aspiration<br />

was to provide a<br />

public park in a<br />

central location in<br />

an emerging part<br />

of the city

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