Aire Park

Hunslet is now an inner-city area of Leeds immediately south of Leeds railway station, bounded on the north and east by the River Aire. It was a rural village until rapid growth during the 19th century as a result of the Industrial Revolution. The area between Meadow Lane and Crown Point Road became the brewery of Joshua Tetley and Son in 1822, which was replaced by the construction of a new brewery designed by George Corson began in 1852. By 1860 Tetley was the largest brewery in the North of England, and in 1931, the Art Deco Tetley headquarters building was erected. Tetley's was fully taken over by Carlsberg in 1998, which had owned 50% since 1993, who announced the brewery's closure in…

The park is promoted as a bustling and open district revitalising a forgotten part of the city, effectively extending the city centre southwards. Andrew Cobden, managing director of Vastint UK, said: "The South Bank has been really fragmented over the years. We feel we have a real opportunity to connect parts of the city back together." As well as a 400-bed hotel and other architectural developments, 500 trees are planned to be planted. Additionally, plans have been submitted to reopen the derelict Crown Hotel on Crown Point Road as a pub and restaurant space, which has been closed since the early 1990s, and to include a memorial to David Oluwale, a British Nigerian who drowned in the River…