Work finishes on historic Leeds road’s £1.3m makeover

New Briggate was created within the mid-Nineteenth Century as a linking level between Briggate and North Street.

In 2017, the road turned a part of the newly-designated Grand Quarter Conservation Area.

The work had aimed to make use of supplies and conversion strategies that fitted with the look of neighbouring landmarks, together with the Grand Arcade and St John’s Church, based on the council.

It included laying new paving on the strategy to a set of steps main as much as the churchyard at St John’s, which dates again to the seventeenth Century.

Pryor, who can be the council’s government member for financial system, transport and sustainable growth, stated he was “delighted” the work had been capable of “make such significant improvements to one of our oldest streets”.

“The results are a shining example of how all that has gone before – in architecture, design, culture and so much more – can shape what we are and do today,” he added.

Bryan Davies, conservation architect at Historic England, stated: “The success of the New Briggate High Street Heritage Action Zone proves heritage is not just about the past, but can act as a powerful catalyst for future growth.

“Heritage-led regeneration can create impactful and sustainable change on our excessive streets in a method that improves folks’s lives, making them a greater place to work, stay and go to.”