Plans for a mixed use riverside development on a site in Leeds city centre have been submitted by landowner YP Real Estate.

The proposed 500,000 sqft scheme will be built on the five acre site which has been cleared.

The application incorporates plans for three detached HQ office buildings positioned along the inner ring road frontage, together with a 200 unit landmark residential block targeted at the private rental market. The scheme could equally incorporate a new hotel if required.

The proposed buildings will only occupy around 60% of the site ensuring the scheme will benefit from extensive areas of open space.

Paul Fox, of Fox Lloyd Jones, acting as agents for the landowners, said: "Our design team has worked collaboratively with a dedicated team from Leeds City Council for a number of months to evolve the scheme. It is now at a point where we feel it meets a wide range of stakeholders' aspirations and will offer a positive contribution to the future growth and development of the city. "We are collectively very excited about the scheme which provides a market facing mix of uses and building sizes."

To support the onsite population, which could reach 4000 workers and residents, the scheme incorporates a wide range of convenience
retail and leisure facilities designed into the scheme at piazza level, which is a largely pedestrianized zone.

These leisure spaces spill out into a large south facing riverside space at the heart of the scheme.

Fox said: "Current occupier demand and dynamics in Leeds are such that it is hoped an early consent can be secured."

Planning consent has already been secured for the recladding of the iconic former Yorkshire Post clock tower which will be adapted and upgraded for digital media advertising purposes.