This is where 552 new homes in Guiseley, Rawdon and Yeadon should be built

The site allocations plan (SAP) is the city’s new housing master plan, outlining in extensive detail where new homes should be built in Leeds over the coming decade.
This is where 552 new homes in Guiseley, Rawdon and Yeadon should be built. Photo via Google.This is where 552 new homes in Guiseley, Rawdon and Yeadon should be built. Photo via Google.
This is where 552 new homes in Guiseley, Rawdon and Yeadon should be built. Photo via Google.

Following a year of disagreements, which culminated in an inquiry into the plans, Leeds City Council this month finally rubber-stamped the document.

The SAP is split into 10 “housing characteristic areas”, each with their own proposed sites earmarked for housing and employment development.

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This article will focus on plans for Aireborough – a semi-rural area of north west Leeds comprising Guiseley, Yeadon and Rawdon.

The document also lists green spaces which should be protected from development.

It is expected that developers will use the SAP as a guide on what they can build in Leeds and whereabouts, while the council claims it will give the city extra protection from “bad developments”.

Sites allocated in the new SAP:

New Birks Farm, Ings Grove, Guiseley (10.84 hectares) – 160 units

Wills Gill, Guiseley (5.06 hectares) – 133 units

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Hollins Hill and Hawkstone Avenue, Guiseley (3.04 hectares) – 80 units

Land at Silverdale Avenue, Guiseley (1.98 hectares) – 32 units

Former Brookfield Nursing Home, Swaine Hill Terrace, Yeadon (0.42 hectares) – seven units

Kirkland House, Queensway, Yeadon (0.47 hectares) – 17 units

Land at Victoria Avenue (3.9 hectares) – 102 units

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Land off Larkfield Drive, Rawdon (0.45 hectares) – six units

The Old Mill, Miry Lane, Yeadon (0.43 hectares) – 15 units

This leaves a total of nine new proposed sites with 552 homes.

Of these, the sites at Wills Gill, Silverdale Avenue, Swaine Hill Terrace, Larkfield Drive and Miry Lane were all considered suitable for older people’s housing.

The SAP also considered a 0.11-hectare site off Town Street, Yeadon to be suitable for travelling showpeople.

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The plan also came up with a site for potential employment in the area – 36.23 hectares of land at Carlton Moor / Leeds Bradford Airport.

A total of 83 sites were designated as green space in the area.

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