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New look MetLeeds Metropolitan University has announced plans for several new developments, including on the site of the former BBC studios in Woodhouse Lane. |
| Leeds Met has acquired the landmark building, used in the past as a Friends’ Meeting House before it became a BBC studio, and is planning to open it in early 2007 as Old Broadcasting House.
It will be a meeting-place for the arts, enterprise and students, including a centre of excellence for teaching. New facilities will then be built to complete the new learning environment for the Faculty of Arts & Society.
The BBC left the Woodhouse Lane site in August 2004 for a new building on Quarry Hill.
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A new lecture theatre complex is planned to be built, subject to planning permission, on the near-by Portland Way car park, behind the Civic Hall. This site will also be the new home for the Leeds Business School.
Leeds Met has already moved its film school into the Electric Press on Millennium Square and redeveloped the Northern Terrace of its Georgian buildings in Queen Square as home for its School of the Built Environment. Leeds Law School also moved last year to be in the centre of the city's legal professions at the historic Cloth Hall Court. | | | last updated: 08/02/06 | | | Have Your Say What do you think of the planned new building? | | |
amir khan
It's not a bad building but hardly sympathetic, or aesthetically relevant to its surroundings. All modern architecture in Leeds is too random. Designers should try harder to make new build respond to Leeds' heritage.
Also, the building leaves a nasty open car park in front of it. It should either be a square or another building.
Jamie
I think the University should consider putting underground car parking facilities in this building for staff and students to compensate for the lost car parking space used by The University
Francis Edwards
It's a lovely design .. but surprisingly all the signage, street lights and clutter that currently exists around the site has been carefully omitted .. I expect the place will look a lot less open when it's built and the queues into the car park will be similar and as obstructive as the entrance into the Morrisons ground level car park
richard Poppa
Great idea and always good to see another wasted space in leeds put to use like this..students in Leeds represent the future of leeds and more shoulkd be done to recognise this , we should value students not critisise them!! Well done Leeds MET!
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