New city quarter to cost £350m

The firm, which bought a 5.86 acre collection of prime development sites in Holbeck for £9.6m last year, wants to create new homes, bars, restaurants and offices on the land.

CEG’s vision, which was unveiled to worldwide investors at MIPIM last week, is to expand the city centre with the aim of putting the train station at the heart of the city rather than a southern boundary.

It has named the area Temple Quarter.

Director Jon Kenny, said: “The station’s new southern entrance opens out into South Bank, making it well-placed to deliver a vibrant mix of new homes, bars, restaurants, leisure, innovative public spaces and headquarter offices securing thousands of new jobs, all within iconic new buildings befitting of a new city quarter.”

Architect Alex Whitbread, from Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCB), is drawing up plans for the sites. Mr Whitbread won the award for the ‘World’s Best Tall Building’ for Leeds Beckett University’s Broadcasting Place in 2010.

He said: “Temple Quarter is a place of possibilities; we can create new ways of living and working. It’s a place to discover new opportunities, unrivalled city centre offices, superior contemporary homes, innovative outdoor spaces,

job and training opportunities, vibrant culture and rich heritage. Ambitious architecture will seek to set a new benchmark for Leeds and other cities across the globe as we have done before with Broadcasting Place.”

Property agent Fox Lloyd Jones is promoting the South Bank Leeds sites to occupiers and investors.