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Planning granted for £8.5 million Leeds park & ride

Planning permission has been granted for an £8.5 million park and ride at Temple Green Road, Leeds.

The plans for the 1000-space car park and transport hub were submitted jointly by Leeds City Council and Temple Green site developers Aire Valley Land (a partnership between Evans Property Group and Keyland Developments).

Outline planning permission was agreed for a petrol filling station and a number of car dealerships.

The new park-and-ride facility will be delivered by Leeds City Council and operated in partnership with West Yorkshire Combined Authority and is one of the first to be funded the recently established West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Transport Fund.

It is expected to be operational in 2016 and intends to provide a frequent bus service of every 15 minutes or better from the site to the city centre.

Councillor Jim McKenna, chair of the City Plans Panel said: “The development makes a number of positive contributions to the city including supporting sustainable development and forms an essential component of the council’s transport strategy to manage traffic and travel in the city.”

Councillor James Lewis, chair of West Yorkshire Combined Authority Transport Committee, said:“This park and ride would complement the 4,500-plus existing spaces at West Yorkshire’s rail stations and the 800-space facility at Elland Road.

“Park and ride is a key method of reducing congestion and improving people’s journeys and to relieve the very high levels of demand on current spaces, feasibility work to investigate developing further park and ride spaces at 18 local stations is being funded though the West Yorkshire plus Transport Fund.”

The new site will complement the £2.8 million park-and-ride project near Leeds United’s Elland Road ground, a joint collaboration between the council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority and bus firm First.

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