A team of volunteers at Leeds Civic Trust has been cataloguing sites captured in a collection of photo slides given to the charity by the now-defunct Leeds Development Corporation, which operated between 1988 and 1995. This was an agency set up under the Thatcher government to regenerate sites in the city centre and in Kirkstall. The agency by-passed normal planning processes with decisions made by a small group of government appointed directors. Planning approvals were then implemented by... Read this story
