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I live in the city centre – I used to live on Wellington Street – and I'm personally really pleased that this building isn't going to be built, for now.

I'd be even more pleased if it was never built, and instead a nice park put there!

Leeds doesn't need yet another soulless block of half empty flats and offices. The design of this 'amazing' building is quite frankly pathetic – by the time it would have been built it would look very aged. Maybe 10 years ago this design might have been something new, but I don't think it's exactly on par with other cities landmark buildings.

I don't understand how this structure would do anything but ruin Wellington Street – both aesthetically by hanging over the surroundings of some of the more beautiful older buildings in the area, and also physically as no doubt the area would become a wind tunnel much like Bridgewater Place.

If you ask people where their favourite area of the city is most people go for Park Square, Millennium Square or Call Lane – the places with a bit of soul, clever development, older buildings and nice communal spaces. Our planning committee is failing to protect our city from these lumiere type buildings. It's too late to think of these things now or protect our city though – our daft council has already given it the go ahead.

I sincerely hope that Linfoot will be socially responsible and make this area accessible once again by foot, and also a nice place for city dwellers to use while they temporarily wait for the economy to change. I hope that the council enforce them to put a lawn over the area for people to enjoy. No doubt though, it will become a car park or left boarded up.

Natalie

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I live just round the corner from the site and have also been affected by the noise, dust and general inconvenience of this development. It's sad that the economic climate has affected the progress of it, but I hope that in the interim they'll try to put the pavements, the road and the oasis area back outside the co-op so that we don't have to look at a deserted building site until the market picks up again, if ever!

SP Leeds

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How about building some affordable homes for the long waiting list of homeless people instead of Mickey Mouse schemes like this.

A W Leeds

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There is a crying need for affordable homes to be built in Leeds so I would have thought that home building would take priority over prestige building which few could afford to rent or buy anyway.

T L l Leeds

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I work in an office near to this site. It should never have got the go ahead in the first place, it would totally swamp Wellington Street. There are enough apartments/flats in Leeds city centre - most which are ugly, souless looking blots on the landscape. We need more green spaces in the centre, similar to Park Square but I suppose projects like this don't make money and all that seems to matter to this city these days.

Moira Corcoran, Leeds

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Can we have the pavement back, the bus stops and return the area to as near normal as possible. I'm sick of having to cross the road to go down Wellington St to get to work.

A R, Leeds

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My friend and i have been renting a flat directly over the road from the site for the past year (something we weren't told about before we moved in....much to our annoyance!!). We are currently arranging to move out and away from that area, partly due to all the noise from the site, and partly due to the fact that we are still expected to pay top whack for the rent whilst living on what sounds like the middle of a building site!! The digging and drilling starts at about 06:30 every morning and echos around our building. NIGHTMARE!! I can't believe they've stopped it now!!!
My advise.......unless you don't mind living on a building site, steer clear of Wellington street!!

Not amused YEP Reader

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It was becoming increasingly clear over the last few weeks that major apartment schemes like this were not going to be viable in the current economic climate. Leeds will not be the only victim of failed large scale regeneration projects involving residential apartments, towers planned in Birmingham & Manchester will probably also fall by the wayside over the coming weeks & months.

SD, Worcestershire.

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I think this is a complete disaster for Leeds. We really needed this massive iconic development to keep us up with any leading city within the UK and the western world, now we have no iconic projects and nothing substantial due to go on the skyline beyond the low rise townscape we have now. Let's hope this credit crunch nonsense moves on soon, otherwise we will just sit and rot for years and the good forward momentum built up over the last decade will just grind to a halt and leeds will start to slide backwards.

R. Leeds

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Another disastrous building project for Leeds. It is about time the City planners allowed the building of realistic properties in Leeds. Not these cram them all in like sardines tower blocks that will eventually become high maintenance nightmares in the future. What's happening with the stalled development on the Corner of North Street, or come to mention it the empty Caspar building which appears to be home to squatters and drug addicts?
Leeds is quickly become a high-rise dump. Once it's classic skyline was once dominated by the City Hall and the University tower on the hill, now all I see are cranes.

CJ

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