Large swathes of land earmarked for HS2 in Leeds for more than a decade will be sold off next summer, after Rishi Sunak scrapped the northern leg of the high-speed railway.
Leeds Council said almost 700 hectares of land is currently being safeguarded for the project and some of it is “valuable brownfield land” worth more than £8m per hectare. Developers have been prevented from building on those sites as there were plans to build a new high-speed line running into a redeveloped Leeds Station. The project was due to kickstart a major redevelopment known as South Bank, which promised to double the size of Leeds city centre and create 8,000 new homes.
The council, which works with HS2 Ltd to safeguard the land, has been warned that some of it will need to be kept from developers if it wants to hold onto any hope of turning Leeds Station into a T-shaped facility with a high-speed line running south. It has previously stated that a new north-south line would put the city at the heart of a network of 14m people running from the Midlands up to the North East and Scotland.
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