Early designs for what would become Leeds’ tallest building have been criticised for conjuring up a “tired 1970s” image. Developers are looking to build two office blocks and a residential tower with more than 400 flats off Lisbon Street in the city centre, next to the A58 and close to the city’s old international pool site.
Measuring 40 storeys and 125m tall, the block of flats would be hexagonal in shape and would stand taller than anything else on the Leeds skyline when complete, applicants McClaren Property say. No planning application for the development has been submitted yet, but the early designs for the scheme divided the views of local councillors, who saw them for the first time at a meeting on Thursday.
Councillor Peter Carlill suggested the tower had a “dated look”. He said: “It’s probably more exciting than the things we built in the 1970s, in terms of the hexagonal approach.
