MEPC Gets The Green Light For New Offices in Leeds

Planning permission has been granted from Leeds City Council for two new Grade A office buildings at Wellington Place. The City Council re-iterated its continued strong support for the proposals noting that the careyjones architects designed buildings provide an exemplar approach which set a benchmark for the City.

Number 3 Wellington Place will be prominently located at the junction of Wellington Street and Northern Street and will comprise 110,000 sq ft of Grade A office space with floor plates up to 19,500 sq ft.

The application for Number 10 Wellington Place includes plans for 35,000 sq ft of Grade A office space set over five floors with floor plates of up to 6,700 sq ft, with the option of transforming the ground floor for retail or leisure use.

Andrew Barlow, managing director of Wellington Place, said: “We are pleased to have received planning permission for Number 3 and Number 10 Wellington Place. This demonstrates our commitment to the expansion of the site; however, we will be taking a long-term approach to construction and we are unlikely to be developing speculatively.

“This decision has been made to enable us to ensure the continued success of Wellington Place and to be in a position to develop the two Grade A office buildings when market conditions allow.”

While many of the UK’s developers opted to mothball paralysed sites, MEPC invested £1 million enhancing its public realm, including; the creation of green space, urban gardens, a five-a-side football pitch and orchard on what would otherwise have been a derelict site.