Infrastructure for growth

The Combined Authority aims to deliver 30+ transport schemes, make progress towards a single 'metro style' public transport network, connected to major national/northern schemes such as Northern Powerhouse Rail.

Projects within this programme

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Citu

Project overview

The Growing Places Fund is investing in a major £125 million business and residential development in South Bank Leeds that will see 316 low carbon homes and a footbridge for cyclists and pedestrians.

Officially named the Climate Innovation District, the project is being led by Citu Low Fold LLP and part-funded by West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Leeds City Council’s Revolving Investment Fund.

There is an on-site modular housing manufacturing facility that will develop the houses for the Citu site.

Phase one is under construction and the first homes are now occupied.

The footbridge also funded through Growing Places Fund will connect Citu’s development on both sides of the river. The bridge will be accessible to cyclists and pedestrians and has opened the riverside to members of the public for the first time in that area.

 

Project Lead CITU (Low Fold) LLP
District/ Area Leeds
Business case summary Link here 
Funding Growing Places Fund £2 million
Project Status Activity 6: Delivery
Start and end dates 2016 - 2021
Delivery partners West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Other funders Citu
Get in touch lcr@leedscityregion.gov.uk

Last updated in Quarter 3 2022/23

Kirkstall Forge Leeds

Project overview

A £5 million Growing Places Fund loan is helping to fund the redevelopment of brownfield land at the former Forge. A new railway station has been opened at the heart of the development and a new road junction created at the site's entrance onto the A65.

The project, led by the Commercial Estates Group, will eventually see 1,000 new homes, Grade A offices, and retail and leisure space created in this major development site.

Almost 2,400 jobs are anticipated in the office buildings, the first of which opened in December 2017. More than 700 people already work at Kirkstall. 

 

Project Lead Commercial Estates Group
District/ Area Leeds
Business case summary Link here
Funding Growing Places Fund £5 million
Project Status Activity 6: Delivery
Start and end dates 2014 - 2028
Delivery partners Leeds City Council, DfT
Other funders Commercial Estates Group
Get in touch lcr@leedscityregion.gov.uk

Last updated in Quarter 3 2022/23

Leeds Inland Port

Project overview

This project will deliver a new wharf facility at Stourton to enable transportation of freight from the Humber estuary into Leeds.

This will enable the support of projects by enabling construction materials to be transported on water, reducing congestion on roads and reducing carbon emissions.

 

Project Lead Canal & River Trust
District/ Area Leeds
Business case summary Link here 
Funding Local Growth Fund- £3.17 million
Project Status Activity 4: Full Business Case
Start and end dates June 2020- March 2021
Delivery partners To be confirmed 
Other funders Canal & River Trust- £0.2 million

Last updated Quarter 4 2019/2020

New Bolton Woods Bradford

New Bolton Woods Bradford

The Growing Places Fund is providing two loans to enable development of the New Bolton Woods urban village, on the Canal Road corridor in Bradford, giving a major boost to plans for a thriving village centre that will include a primary school and health facilities, improved green spaces and sports pitch facilities.

The loans have improved traffic and pedestrian access to the commercial part of the village. A Costa coffee drive-thru opened in Spring 2019 and a Lidl branch opened in Spring 2020 to provide the retail heart of the urban village. A third commercial outlet will complete one side of the village, releasing development funds for later phases.

The New Bolton Woods project – which has also received Leeds City Region Growth Deal funding – will see 1,000 new homes built on under-utilised land near to Frizinghall railway station. Fifty homes have already been built, including 20 social rented homes.

 

Project Lead Canal Road Urban Village Ltd (CRUVL)
District/ Area Bradford
Business case summary Link here
Funding Growing Places Fund- £248,000 and £340,000
Project Status Activity 6: Delivery
Start and end dates 2018-2023
Delivery partners Canal Road Urban Village Ltd (CRUVL)
Other funders CRUVL
Get in touch lcr@leedscityregion.gov.uk

Last updated in Quarter 3 2022/2023

Witt Group Calderdale

Project overview

The £1.5 million Growing Places Fund loan to The Witt Group helped the world-renowned industrial fan designer and manufacturer to move into new premises, and launch new product lines. The project will create over 26 new jobs by bringing previously outsourced work back to the City Region and equipping the company to take on larger and more complex contracts.

The loan was used to purchase a new site for the company, with triple the space available  in the previous premises and allowed the company to bring all their operations back under a single roof.

Witt Group also launched an enhanced apprenticeship scheme – in line with the LEP’s focus on apprentices – and now hires two to three new apprentices each year.

 

Project Lead Witt UK Group
District/ Area Calderdale
Business case summary Link here 
Funding Growing Places Fund £1.5 million
Project Status Activity 6: Delivery
Start and end dates 2013 - 2024
Delivery partners West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Other funders Witt Group
Get in touch lcr@leedscityregion.gov.uk

Last updated in Quarter 3 2022/2023

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