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Garforth and Swillington is a ward and Swillington is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The ward and parish contain 22 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area covered by ...
The new construction of the East Leeds Orbital Road and road improvements to the old Ring Road (B902) will provide more change in the coming years, bringing an additional 52,000 new homes across East Leeds, [6] and up to 18,000 new homes in Whinmoor alone as a part of the Whinmoor Fields area (Northern Quadrant of the East Leeds Extension).
Swillington is a village and civil parish near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough.It is situated 5 miles (8 km) east from Leeds city centre, north of the River Aire, and is surrounded by streams including Fleakingley Beck.
Ireland Wood is a small residential area in north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England named after the Woodland Trust wood which it contains. It is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) to the north-west of Leeds city centre. It was planned by the Leeds Housing Director, R.A.H. Livett, and won the Ministry Housing medal for 1945-9.
A local development framework is the spatial planning strategy introduced in England and Wales by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and given detail in Planning Policy Statements 12. In most parts of the two countries, maintaining the framework is the responsibility of English district councils and Welsh principal area councils.
Swarcliffe, originally the Swarcliffe Estate, is a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.It is 4.9 miles (8 km) east of Leeds city centre, and within the LS14 and LS15 Leeds postcode area.
Garforth owes its size to expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries during which the local land-owning Gascoigne family ran several coalmines in the area. The surrounding settlements of Micklefield, Kippax, Swillington, Methley and Allerton Bywater Great and Little Preston are all villages that prospered and grew as a result of the coal industry.
The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council.The ward boundaries were last reorganised in 2004. A map of the wards is available on the council website, [1] as is a postcode-to-ward tool. [2]