Developer considers preserving historic Yorkshire Post clock tower
Summarised from 3 outlets · Updated 7 Oct, 11:45 · Archive
A developer is considering how to preserve a historic clock tower at the former Yorkshire Post Newspapers site in Leeds as part of new plans for the site. The landmark tower and temperature gauge has stood on Wellington Street since the city's two newspapers left in 2012.
Urbanite Leeds Ltd secured planning permission in 2023 to turn the former home of the Yorkshire Post and Evening Post into student flats. That scheme would have included buildings up to 42 storeys high and carried a condition that the clock tower be preserved in some form.
The developer's plans have since changed. Office buildings of 15 and 17 storeys are now planned for the demolished site after the original scheme ran into complications. The clock tower has been recognised as an important heritage feature for the city of Leeds.
Urbanite said it was considering its options after a public consultation was held on the latest plans. A planning report said the developer would work with Leeds City Council to agree how the existing clock tower could be 're-imagined within the development in an appropriate way'.
How it is being reported
- 'It could be re-imagined': Early plans to preserve the Yorkshire Evening Post clock tower revealedThe clock tower has been recognised as an ‘important heritage feature for the city of Leeds’Yorkshire Evening Post · 7 Oct, 11:30
- What next for iconic Yorkshire Post clock tower in Leeds?A developer is considering how best to preserve a historic clock tower as part of new plans for the former Yorkshire Post Newspapers site.Telegraph & Argus · 7 Oct, 11:25
- What next for iconic Yorkshire Post clock tower?A developer is considering how best to preserve a historic clock tower as part of new plans for the former Yorkshire Post Newspapers site.Yorkshire Post · 6 Oct, 17:59
In this story: Yorkshire Post · Urbanite Leeds Ltd · Leeds · Leeds City Council · Wellington Street
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