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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