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BBC News
03-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Leeds' First White Cloth Hall could become café and tattoo studio
Plans to turn a Grade II listed building on one of Leeds' oldest streets into a café, bar and tattoo studio have been City Council received a change of use application from property company Rushbond to transform First White Cloth Hall on Kirkgate in the city centre. Renovations on the historical building were completed in 2021, but it has been empty since comes as refurbishments to the frontages of neighbouring buildings are set to be carried out, with the street closed to traffic since a partial collapse last April. First White Cloth Hall dates back to 1711 and is one of the oldest surviving cloth markets in Yorkshire. It became completely disused in 2010, with renovations to restore the building starting in 2019. According to planning documents, the ground floor will be used as a restaurant and café, with a bar for the first floor include tattoo and beauty studios, providing hairdressing, nails and make-up treatments. Miles and Co Coffee shop relocated to the street six months ago, with owner Lee Griffin encouraged by the potential additions."Ultimately, the same as in the market, when you have all of the units full it does bring a better atmosphere," he said. Cameron Bedford, manager of Doghouse Bar and Bagel Shop, thinks the revamp will bring further footfall to the "basically derelict" street."The street is the oldest in Leeds and I do think it deserves to be celebrated," he said. "I feel like a lot of the identity of Leeds is getting stripped out week-by-week with venues closing."Something new to bring a bit of excitement to the street, to revive it a little bit, will be exactly what it needs." Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Turner Prize winner's art on show at Wakefield's former court
A neon sculpture by a Turner Prize-winning artist will be installed on a former court building in artwork, which reads "everything is going to be alright", has been designed by globally acclaimed artist Martin Creed, who was born in the were approved for the sign to be clamped on to the Grade II* listed building, which has been empty for more than three is due to be transformed into a public events space as part of plans to regenerate Wakefield's civic quarter. Documents submitted to Wakefield Council said the work would aim to put the old courthouse "back on the map" as a destination for visitors to the to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Leeds-based developers Rushbond said the proposed installation would offer a "positive message" at a time of change in the city centre."It intends to offer reassurance and can be interpreted as a direct reference to the positive regeneration efforts under way at the courthouse itself," the developers said. Creed won the Turner Prize in 2001 and has previously exhibited work at Tate Britain in London, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Moscow Museum of Modern similar to the one planned for Wakefield have been displayed on prominent buildings around the world, including in Times Square, New York, and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in old courthouse was built in 1810 but has been derelict since it closed in is due to be reopened after being bought by the council.A planning officer's report said the installation was designed to clamp onto the building and would will not be permanently fixed to council's conservation officer said illuminated signs were "not generally supported within conservation areas" but there were "public benefits that justify the proposal".Approval was granted subject to a condition that the work be displayed for a maximum of five to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
