Leeds City Council has made £44m from selling numerous buildings over the past year, a new document has revealed.
The paper, set to go before the council’s decision-making executive board next week, also listed a further 46 sites the authority plans to sell next year.
It forms part of the council’s Capital Receipts programme, which has generated around £550m since 1990, and is expected to raise a further £133m by 2025.
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The document stated: “In the current financial year capital receipts totaling £44.5m have been realised.
“The Council’s Estate Management Strategy which was approved by Executive Board in November 2021 sets out the principles which guides our estate provision, but one of the key considerations is around ensuring that our estate is well utilised and that surplus properties are released in a timely way.”
Sales that have taken place over the past few months include Skelton Moor Way (the site which includes the Amazon warehouse), The Leonardo and Thorseby buildings in the city centre, and the East Lodge at Temple Newsam.
Among the sites targeted to be sold before the end of the current financial year, in March, are Micklefield House in Rawdon, Bramley Housing Office, and Millshaw Offices.
For the next municipal year – which runs from April 2022 to March 2023 – The council has already agreed to sell land at Sovereign Street, Halton Moor and Seacroft Crescent.
Plans are in place to sell dozens more, including the former Leeds International Pool site, the former Eastmoor School, the ASDA at Holt Park District Centre and Peckfield Business Park.
The plans are set to be discussed at a Leeds City Council Executive Board meeting on Wednesday, February 9.
Sites the council has agreed to sell in 2022/23
- Sovereign Street Plot B
- Miles Hill Primary School & Beckhill Approach
- Waterloo Sidings, access land, Halton Moor
- Seacroft Crescent, Land at, LS14 (Former Library Site) Extra Care
Sites the council wants to sell in 2022/23
- Leeds International Pool, Lisbon St
- Redhall
- Former Eastmoor School
- Southern Quadrant East Leeds Extension Plot C
- Clarence Road, Land
- Middleton Park Complex
- Eastgate & Harewood
- St Cecilia Street land, Quarry Hill
- Land at South Accommodation Road
- Peckfield Balance 3 acres
- Windlesford Green, Holmsley Lane, Woodlesford
- Waterloo Sidings, access land, Halton Moor
- Yorkshire Rider Club, Former, Saxton Gardens
- Burley Road Shops & Car Park
- Rothwell One Stop Area Office, Marsh Street
- South Pudsey Centre
- Rathmell Road, Halton Moor
- Holt Park District centre (residential sites)
- Peckfield Business Park
- Harehills Park Cottages
- Stanks Gardens, Land at, Swarcliffe
- Carr Manor Cottages 1 & 2
- Peckfield – Travelling Showman’s Site
- Quarry Hill Car Parking Payment
- Bishop’s Way
- Seacroft Crescent (Overage)
- Farrar Lane, Land at, Holt Park
- Abbey Mills, Kirkstall Road
- Hill Crest 32, land adj, Swillington (self build)
- Oulton Golf Course Disposal
- St Francis Of Assisi Catholic Primary School – Caretakers House
- Well Lane, Land at Yeadon
- Buckingham House
- All Saints Road, Rothwell (Self Build)
- Summerfield Gardens, Rodley (Self Build)
- Holdforth Place, Wortley
- Lea Farm Road, Lea Park Road, Kirkstall (Self Build)
- Clarence Road (2nd phased payment of 2)
- Arena Development Site
- Kendall Drive, Halton Moor
- Holt Park District Centre ASDA
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