News Holbeck Green Corridor Project Featured On BBC TV
Inner-city scheme earns national recognition, Rebecca Shoemaker reports
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Leeds’ future is truly blossoming, and as a sign of progress being made around the metropolitan district, the up-and-coming inner-city area of Holbeck has been spruced up with greenery. What once was a neglected wasteland is now alive with wildflower meadows, luscious havens for butterflies and wildlife and grassy sprawls of open spaces, thanks to the Holbeck Green Corridor Project.
Leeds City Council is responsible for the transformation, along with help from local groups including Holbeck in Bloom, Holbeck Elderly Aid, the Cupboard Youth Project and Ingram Road Primary School. Together, they have created a vibrant green corridor connecting Holbeck and Beeston to the city centre – a project that will soon be complemented by other substantial improvements to the area like a low carbon housing development in Beeston and Tower Works in Holbeck Urban Village.
Children and residents of Holbeck have been enjoying the newly regenerated area – a district that will soon be showcased in an upcoming BBC programme on the importance of flowers and eco-aware, sustainable projects to benefit the environment, biodiversity, human health and personal and social wellbeing. Holbeck’s Green Corridor Project has been chosen as “one of the best examples of flowers in an inner-city landscape ever seen.” The BBC camera crew visited the area on Wednesday 11th August to take a look at the completed project – now a flourishing refuge for wildlife at a previously derelict site. Having inspired Birmingham City Council to create a similar project, councillors in the West Midlands city also traveled to Holbeck to see the blooming area for themselves.
Councillor Richard Lewis, an executive member of Leeds City Council, is largely responsible for development and restoration projects happening throughout the city. Lewis said the Holbeck Green Corridor Project has been “hugely successful” and he is “delighted” that it is now attracting national interest.
Posted on Thursday 12th August 2010
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