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Welcome To Temple – how Globe Point stands as a gateway to ambition
January 09, 2023
The opening of the Globe Point development between Water Lane and Globe Road signaled the first completed development in Leeds in 2022. It is one of a number of developments underway in the Temple district and is putting the south side of Leeds city centre firmly on the map. As a feature building, it is a landmark worthy of heralding a development with this degree of foresight and aspiration. Globe Point is such a building; a raw and angular attraction that arrests the eye and draws you in.
Taking A Chance On Yourself; a story of young people beating the pandemic
November 30, 2020
There isn’t a social group, generational bracket or demographic sector that hasn’t been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic; by its very nature it has been indiscriminate and has not paused to be selective over who it holds in its grip. To some, it has caused some minor lifestyle shifts, to others it has caused a tidal wave of unforeseen tragedy. And there are lots of people in between; different people affected in different ways.
A chink of light for Temple Works
March 13, 2020
Since becoming custodians of Temple Works in early 2018, CEG have worked tirelessly to protect the building, understand more about it and find a suitable long term use which reflects its importance and its brilliance. This week the Government’s Budget announced funding towards what could be a possible use for the building, and a wholly appropriate one at that. The work contributing to reaching this point has been painstaking, patient and collaborative. A wealth of talented people are working towards this positive future for Temple Works, and this press release – reproduced in full below - released by CEG goes some way to explaining where things stand now.
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Hope and Expectation: How Life Experience are bringing resilience to South Leeds
January 22, 2020
Resilience is something everybody needs. However well your life is going and whatever circumstances you live in, you need resilience; spirit, strength and resistance. Because we all face things that test our character and how we deal with them often defines us. Some challenges are bigger than others, and bouncing back from illness, misfortune or mistakes can require a special kind of resilience.
Leeds welcomes the world? How a textile heritage can be the cornerstone of innovation
December 23, 2019
When you can point to a textile industry that is traceable back to the Middle Ages, and has developed through cottage industries and the mass production of cotton, linen and wool right up to the manufacture of clothes and fine tailoring, it may come as a surprise to today’s generation to know that, although the scale might be greatly reduced, the core of this industry survives.
Something for everyone: how ‘South Bank for South Leeds’ aims to promote inclusive growth
December 08, 2019
To build a successful community, according to Rolf Mason, curate of St Luke’s Church in South Leeds, as he addressed a packed room of local residents at the Holbeck Working Men’s Club on a chilly November evening, you need three things; 1. People first and foremost 2. Businesses and employers to create money and 3. A great council to organise everything.
A Temple Of Sustainability Again: How CEG are helping work towards a carbon neutral Leeds
November 22, 2019
The Science is a problem; climate change is “An Inconvenient Truth”. And in a world that is slowly becoming a scientific problem beyond any recognisable scale, we need to be careful how we respond to it. We can’t just solve one problem by adding to a much bigger one. By building much needed homes and workplaces, we are using precious resources, but also, if delivered in an unconsidered way, we are potentially compounding the issue and locking in problems for years to come. But there are ways to control that, and developers like CEG are committed to finding these solutions, implementing them and helping others do the same.
Holbeck Holism And The Art Of Joining The Dots
November 15, 2019
For a plan to have an overall effect, sometimes you have to just join up the dots. It’s similar to the theory of holism, better known as the concept of the ‘sum of its parts’, whereby the total effectiveness of a group of things each interacting with one another is greater than their effectiveness when acting in isolation. If you can translate this ideology, or at least a need for it, to an area of a city, then Holbeck is perhaps a good example. And there might just be an organisation who are about to implement holism in LS11, before our very eyes.
Making Temple A Great Place To Be - a personal view
October 22, 2019
Temple is a place where things are happening. They are happening now and they will be happening in the future; one step at a time as Temple evolves to become a ‘great place’ to be. CEG’s Temple development is an opportunity to build on the great assets already in the area and connect them together with a thriving city centre and an established local community. It is a rounded development that is essentially about making a place; creating and harnessing a thriving neighbourhood and providing a destination.
Temple: Change is coming
September 27, 2019
A new neighbourhood is coming to Leeds. Fresh ideas, new spaces and an injection of people, amenities and infrastructure. But crucially, building on the unique character and tradition of what is already there.
History Beneath Our Feet – an update
September 05, 2019
Demolition of the former industrial buildings on the plots now known as Globe Point and Globe Square in February 2019, was the trigger to kick-start CEG’s long-awaited regeneration project at Water Lane and Globe Road in the Holbeck area of Leeds. It also provided the opportunity for some key archaeological studies to be performed on the site which was critical to the forming of the Marshall Empire in the late 18th century and the wide scale development of the Industrial Revolution in Leeds.
Education For All – how the Marshalls set about upskilling Holbeck
June 25, 2019
John Marshall was a different kind of mill owner. Not just in his ground-breaking implementation of productivity, engineering and raw material procurement practices, or his adoption of visionary design, construction and architectural techniques, but in his treatment of people.
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The Last Line Of Defence: how regeneration can build people as well
June 12, 2019
Regeneration is about making lasting changes, and not just in a physical sense. Reversing a decline is as much about building people as it is building office blocks, public realm and mixed-use developments. The prime objective of a regeneration scheme should be to stimulate social and economic change, and that means addressing unemployment, poor housing, poor health, crime rates, a lack of facilities and creating a sense of community.
40 years and counting – can you help fill the gaps at Kirkstall Forge?
May 29, 2019
Developing society dictates that work life and family life are very different today than for past generations, and the opportunities available to many of us are far more diverse and aspirational than might once have been the case. You can set up a business that has a global reach and run it from your spare bedroom, or you can just travel the world with your work if you want to. But then those opportunities aren’t open to everyone, and a more traditional approach to careers and learning a trade is perfectly valid and still works for some people.
Forging Futures offers a golden repair for the young people of Leeds
May 14, 2019
The Japanese art of Kintsugi is the restoration of broken pottery with the use of lacquer dust or with powdered gold, silver or platinum. It creates a new piece of art that, scars and all, is considered more valuable than the original piece. In relating this to our everyday lives, it demonstrates that we should be proud of our scars because it is those that make us what we are. Also, we should never discard something and dismiss it as worthless, because everything can be repaired, and sometimes the breaks make the end result more precious.
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I am a Leeds-based freelance writer and author.
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