The Academy of Urbanism recently announced the 15 Great Places shortlisted in the 2020 Urbansim Awards.\u00a0The winners\u00a0of the five categories, including European City of the Year and The Great Town, Neighbourhood, Place, and Street,\u00a0will be announced at the awards ceremony\u00a0in London\u00a0on 27 November.<\/p>\n
South Bank was named a finalist for The Great Neighbourhood award alongside Manchester\u2019s Levenshulme and Edinburgh\u2019s Portobello.<\/p>\n
Boasting a prime location in\u00a0Leeds city centre<\/a>,\u00a0South Bank\u00a0is seeing significant regeneration\u00a0with thousands of new homes and job opportunities coming to\u00a0the\u00a0neighbourhood, which\u00a0continues to attract\u00a0more people and investors to the area.<\/p>\n Leeds City Council has set forth a\u00a0regeneration framework<\/a>\u00a0that aims to double the size of the city centre by transforming South Bank.\u00a0As one of the biggest regeneration schemes in Europe, the proposals\u00a0aim for the area to provide\u00a035,000 jobs in a range of industries and\u00a0at least\u00a08,000 homes.\u00a0This will help the city keep up with the increasing demand of\u00a0people wanting to live\u00a0and work\u00a0in Leeds city centre.<\/p>\n Leeds recently made it on\u00a0The Times\u00a0Best Places to Live in the UK<\/a>\u00a02019 list. The newspaper named South Bank\u2019s Candle House as one of the best addresses to live in, as\u00a0the thriving neighbourhood\u00a0continues to increase\u00a0in popularity.<\/p>\n South Bank is\u00a0a sustainable location to create\u00a0additional housing<\/a>\u00a0with close proximity to jobs and\u00a0transportation options<\/a>.\u00a0There are\u00a0more than 300 creative and digital businesses\u00a0clustered\u00a0in\u00a0the area. Additionally,\u00a0the opening of the southern entrance to Leeds Station\u00a0directly serves South Bank.<\/p>\n Further\u00a0housing and investment\u00a0growth<\/a>\u00a0are expected to come to\u00a0Leeds city centre\u00a0to keep up with\u00a0increasing\u00a0demand, especially in the\u00a0strategic\u00a0South Bank\u00a0area.\u00a0As Leeds City Council\u2019s\u00a0regeneration frameworks continues to transform the neighbourhood, it will become an even\u00a0more\u00a0appealing\u00a0area to live and invest in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Bank in Leeds is a finalist for a 2020 Urbanism Award as one of the best neighbourhoods across the UK and Europe. The Academy of Urbanism recently announced the 15 Great Places shortlisted in the 2020 Urbansim Awards.\u00a0The winners\u00a0of the five categories, including European City of the Year and The Great Town, Neighbourhood, Place,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1982,"featured_media":5023930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,6],"tags":[378,39,422],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5023930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A\u00a0thriving\u00a0neighbourhood<\/h3>\n