Victoriagate/Eastgate Quarter Development

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Wed 13 Oct, 2010 8:34 pm

Apparently The Templar is to be saved and will become the focal point of a new square.I wonder if they foresee a change in clientèle? Instead of Tetleys and peanuts, they'll be serving Bavarian Raspberry Wheat beer and edemame beans, perhaps?

Post by **cnosni** » Thu 14 Oct, 2010 1:55 am

raveydavey wrote: Apparently The Templar is to be saved and will become the focal point of a new square.I wonder if they foresee a change in clientèle? Instead of Tetleys and peanuts, they'll be serving Bavarian Raspberry Wheat beer and edemame beans, perhaps? I bet you are right

biggee99 · Post by **biggee99** » Thu 14 Oct, 2010 10:29 am

More shops where are people getting there money from to spendin this new shopping centre need to sort the roads out they are all past it, at this rate they will be no jobs no money its doomed for disaster not only the UK the world is falling apart and quicker than you think. People in debt up to there eye balls, look at them in the new cars can't afford them houses they can't afford only one way and thats going??????????

themaster · Post by **themaster** » Thu 14 Oct, 2010 12:20 pm

keyholekate wrote: I cant imagine what it will be like but am so looking frward to having a John Lewis in Leeds. There used to be a John Lewis in Leeds' City Centre it became Adlers and then closed down....The building is still there it's where the 'new' Argos Extra, and TK-Max, etc are locatedArgos moved there to make room for the Eastgate Quarter

anthonydna · Post by **anthonydna** » Thu 14 Oct, 2010 12:45 pm

John Lewis, is not Lewis's.. Completely different company.

Post by **chameleon** » Thu 14 Oct, 2010 5:37 pm

anthonydna wrote: John Lewis, is not Lewis's.. Completely different company. Yes, an understandable and common misconception,if you have not known the actual John Lewis Partnership

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 11 May, 2011 6:49 pm

copied from another thread:patterUser Location: HarehillsJoined on: 13-Feb-2008 19:22:27Posted: 57 posts # Posted on: 11-May-2011 12:06:36. Edit | Quote From The Guardian, one of our better local papers.Your chance to put your questions to the developer of the £600m Eastgate Quarters development in Leeds - http://www.guardian.co.uk/leeds/2011/ma ... lopersAlso shorter link in case the forum does anything interesting - http://goo.gl/RUjn1

Post by **chameleon** » Fri 08 Jul, 2011 9:16 pm

the revised plan for this has been approved. Sometime ago, a report, for the Council as I recall, recomended dropping the term 'quarter' as it was found it had little apeal to the public in identifying an area - seems still to be the preferred term howeverhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14078495

electricaldave · Post by **electricaldave** » Fri 08 Jul, 2011 11:00 pm

I notice that the artist impressions do not seem to focus much at all on the view up the Headrow from Eastgate.It appears to me that the lower Eastgate buildings are to be demolished, and since this was designed to stand as a pair of 'bookcases' this is really terrible.Take a look at this,http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... AY=FULLThe drawings I have seen on the net do not make it clear what happens to the buildings on the right, except somehow there will be a piazza in front of the Templar Church which will be much more accessible - the word the designers use is 'permeable'. which appear to be code for knocking down a number of significant buildings.In this picture, try to imagine the location of the proposed piazza,http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... Y=FULLThis appear to me to mean that at the very least, the whole centre of that building will go.It seems to me that the left side buildings will be completely demolished in favour of some large amorphous blobThe plans and artist impressions do not make it totally clear, is this intentional I think that to lose such a familiar Leeds sight looking up the Headrwo from Eastgate might prove a bit controversial and maybe thats why it is not clear.I have just watched the video view of it, and its true the left building is removed and in its place is a large horrible blob - this would be the John Lewis store - I don't know who imagines this is a good idea, I certainly don't, maybe it looks ok on a little model, but these things have a way of looking awful when scaled up, and especially with a few decades added - the YEP buidling is a good example. looks like a nice building from a model view, but the reality was pretty awful.It also means that whole place is going to be just one corporate lump, with no local character at all, I agree that lots of the area is in need of development, but when you consider what lies within the proposed plan, from the Templar houses, through to the workhouse and up to the chancery bar on Vicar lane, it all gets lost and the past is utterly erased.This part of Leeds is quite important, look on the old maps and you start to see certain land holdings the Ley Lands etc - it will all lose its relevance.There will be a huge amount of archeology under all that lot, and probably an number of bell pits, but the worst thing is that this new development will have no reference, its not like you will be able to walk along the lines of the old streets, or even the old grid plan - it all goes.Seems that there is a body of market traders and advocates who are not keen on this, and see it as a threat, however it is sad to say but my view is that Leeds markets have been in decline for some time - perhaps this decline has been deliberate, it would not surprise me.http://kirkgatemarket.wordpress.com/

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Fri 08 Jul, 2011 11:16 pm

I've got no love for Eastgate, it stood empty for years and the buildings in the middle are of little interest and stamp all over the original street plan, the resurrection of Lady Lane as a thoroughfare not a back street would be welcome. Having said that I'm not exactly enamoured of the proposals.