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15 February 2024

Planning Submitted for Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease

Corstorphine & Wright has submitted plans for the Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) at Seacroft Hospital in Leeds (Yorkshire, UK) run by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The planning application follows extensive stakeholder engagement sessions to create a building that meets the vision of all those involved, including clinical staff, patients, and the wider MND community, as well as the Burrow family.

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The centre has been funded by Leeds Hospitals Charity, through its Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease appeal which has now raised over £5.3 million of its £6.8 million target. It will be a hub of innovation, education and excellence in the treatment for MND for the region, bringing together holistic patient-centred care in a purpose-built environment.

The brand-new centre will see all MND services housed under one roof for the first time, in an accessible location conscious of the needs of those who visit. Supporting all aspects of the patient’s journey, the centre will create comfortable and peaceful surroundings for patients and their families, including spaces to reflect after sensitive conversations as well as places to engage and create positive moments.

The proposed building is arranged in three joined forms – an East and West Wing which house the primary clinical spaces, connected via a central atrium. This central space has been designed as a community focussed area with a mix of accommodation from reading and quiet spaces, as well as activity and dining areas. It will be a place for family members to use and will enable staff to observe patients in a more informal setting.

The first floor is designated as a staff area with a dedicated wellbeing space to provide staff working in the building with space away from the clinical areas – an important consideration when providing care to patients with such a challenging condition.

Externally, the building has presence, but still fulfills the requirements for a centre that feels like home. It takes references from the local vernacular in the form of red brick tiles and gabled roofs, providing texture to clean architectural forms. Internally, natural materials will blend throughout the spaces, adding further texture and helping to support the wellbeing of patients and staff using the building.

The new centre will make the most of the existing landscape features including mature trees and will provide landscaped gardens with access routes through zones with a mixture of textural planting which patients can engage with. It will also provide spaces for other therapy activities to take place as well as a memorial wall for private moments with projecting roof forms acting as a transitional zone for those entering and exiting the building. Targeting a sustainability rating of BREEAM “Excellent” the centre will also be built with a vision for the future, able to adapt to new innovations and treatments for MND patients as they emerge.

Architect and Associate Director at Corstorphine & Wright, Toby Ingle, said:

“As well as being adaptable for the future, one of the main visions of the new MND centre is to create a space for the MND community to come together to support one another, and this will remain at the heart of what it does. Engaging with what the community wants the new centre to be fundamentally informed how we have designed the new building, from its location on the site and the materials we will build it from, to the furniture that we will specify and the colours and textures we will weave throughout the building and landscape. The Corstorphine & Wright team is honoured to be able to deliver this building for Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds Hospitals Charity and for the MND community, and the submission of the planning application marks a positive and exciting step forward in seeing it come to fruition.”

Craige Richardson, Director for Estates and Facilities, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, said:

“Following extensive stakeholder engagement sessions, we are very pleased that the planning application for the new Motor Neurone Disease centre has been submitted to Leeds City Council. We hope our vision for this exemplary facility will be supported, having already received so much community backing. Once we move past this point, the landscape really starts to take shape, and we anticipate a rapid succession of activity over the next few months.”

To find out more about the Rob Burrow Centre for MND Appeal please visit: https://www.leedshospitalscharity.org.uk/mnd

About Corstorphine & Wright:

Corstorphine & Wright is an award-winning architectural practice with a team of expert architects and designers across eleven studios and is ranked at number 14 in the AJ100. We design to create that elusive ‘must-have’ quality, translating requirements, constraints and opportunities into places that are more than the sum of their parts. That way, you get intelligently-designed places – places that Invigorate communities and maximise long-term civic and commercial value. https://www.corstorphine-wright.com/

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Leeds Building News

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19 Oct 2023
Consent Granted for Major Leeds Gateway Office Scheme As Developer Commits To Speculative Delivery

Wellington Plaza, former HQ building:

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A planning application to redevelop a landmark site in Leeds city centre to deliver 77,000 sq ft of prime, best in class workspace has been approved by Leeds City Council.

A Joint venture partnership between Asset Capital and Prescient Capital purchased Wellington Plaza, a prominent 1980’s former HQ building on Wellington Street, last year with plans for major redevelopment that would set new standards in business accommodation.

The partnership has confirmed its intent to fund and deliver the £50 million scheme speculatively with a start on site by early 2024. This transformation of one of the last remaining standalone gateway sites in the heart of Leeds’s West End business district is currently the only pipeline scheme of its calibre in the city centre to start on site in 2024.

Designed by Leeds based DLA Architecture, the approved plans will increase floor space availability from 21,000 sq ft to 77,000 sq ft with Grade A specification floorplates up to 10,000 sq ft. A total redesign of the buildings’ façade is influenced by the local conservation area and ESG credential targets including BREEAM Outstanding, minimum NABERS 5 Star, Fitwell 3 Star and Wired Score Platinum Certification.

The internal space is designed to support the post-pandemic hybrid way of working with total flexibility for occupiers fit out. Communal spaces will include a large roof top terrace, sky lounge, and business lounge linked into reception for occupiers and their guests.

Daniel Newett, CEO at Asset Capital, the developer, said,
“We are delighted to secure planning consent to redevelop this important building in Leeds city centre that has lain vacant for some time now. We have plans to not only bring the site in line with its neighbouring Grade A premises but surpass this with a specification that the city has not yet seen, redefining the term ‘super prime’.

“We are very much repurposing an existing building, in line with our commitment to reducing our carbon footprint, to provide an inspirational, collaborative, sustainable and futureproof working environment that is worthy of a leading European city for business.”

Fox Lloyd Jones, strategic property advisors have been appointed joint office leasing agents for the scheme alongside Cushman & Wakefield and Knight Frank. Society Studios is appointed as branding and marketing consultants for the scheme.

Adam Cockroft at Cushman & Wakefield said,
“Wellington Plaza will offer much needed, new, super prime office accommodation with a level of specification and ESG credentials that Leeds city centre has not yet seen. Several pre-let discussions are already underway, confirming that the desirability for such high-quality workspace in a prime city centre location is still high.”

Nick Salkeld, Director at Fox Lloyd Jones, said,
“Wellington Plaza’s speculative development is a huge boost for the critically undersupplied Leeds office market. There remains an underlying ‘flight to quality’ with Grade A demand accounting for almost 80% of take up which has seen headline rents continue to rise. Wellington Plaza is the first of a new generation of offices coming forward in the pipeline which will set the benchmark for boutique ESG led workspace in the prime core and is already attracting pre-let interest.”

With an anticipated eighteen month build programme, the development is expected to achieve completion for occupation by the Spring 2026.

About Asset Capital

Asset Capital is a Leeds based private equity investor in property backed deals across all development sectors. It has formed strong and successful partnerships with leading regional and national companies, providing them with both financial and industry expertise, underpinned by specialists focused on driving value and profit for stakeholders.

With shareholding in a number of property-backed joint ventures vehicles across property and construction, Asset Capital has amassed a strong development pipeline with a GDV of more than £5 billion.

West Yorkshire Property Development Updates

Leeds Architectural News 2022

14 Nov 2022
Globe Point Leeds
Building architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS); Interior Designer: Ekho Studio

photo : Tom Bird
Globe Point Leeds Temple District Property
The 37,800 sq ft, seven-storey, BREEAM Excellent and WiredScore Platinum office development by architects FCBS has been designed to provide next generation workspace for over 400 people. This striking flat iron design building has spectacular views across the city from its roof terrace gardens.

20 May 2022
Westbank Leeds, South Bank regeneration area
Design: DLA Architecture

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Westbank Leeds South Bank Commercial Property

13 May 2022
Whitelock Street Leeds Student Residences, North Leeds
Design: Howarth Litchfield Architects, Durham

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Whitelock Street Leeds Student Residences
As regeneration begins on a disused site in Whitelock Street, north of Leeds city centre, Alumno is planning a wide-ranging programme of artists commissions for its new development to support the city’s growing student population.

5 May 2022
2022 RIBA Yorkshire Award Winners
2022 RIBA Yorkshire Award Winners

5 May 2022
Carnegie School of Sport
Design: Sheppard Robson

photo © Andrew Heptinstall
Carnegie School of Sport Leeds Beckett University

5 May 2022
Leeds Footbridge
Design: Gagarin Studio with DP Squared

photo © Andrew Wall
Leeds Footbridge

5 May 2022
Maggie’s Yorkshire
Design: Heatherwick Studio

photo © Hufton and Crow
Maggie’s Yorkshire Centre Building

5 May 2022
The Alice Hawthorn, Nun Monkton, Harrogate district of North Yorkshire
Design: De Matos Ryan

photo © Nick Hufton, Hufton and Crow
The Alice Hawthorn, Nun Monkton

15 Mar 2022
Pin Yard, Siddall Street, Holbeck Urban Village area

photo courtesy of Grainger plc
Pin Yard Leeds Apartments, Holbeck Urban Village

22 Feb 2022
RIBA Yorkshire Awards 2022 Shortlist News
Five projects have been shortlisted for the 2022 RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Yorkshire Awards:

• Carnegie School of Sport, West Yorkshire, Sheppard Robson
• Courtyard House, West Yorkshire, Doma Architects
• Leeds Footbridge, West Yorkshire, Gagarin Studio with DP Squared
• Maggie’s Leeds, West Yorkshire, Heatherwick Studio
• The Alice Hawthorn, North Yorkshire, De Matos Ryan

photos © Andrew Wall

2022 RIBA Yorkshire Awards Shortlist

3 Feb 2022
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Design: Perkins&Will with Penoyre & Prasad and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

image courtesy of the architects office
Leeds Teaching Hospitals

21 Jan 2022
Church Lane Cottage, Hutton Buscel, North Yorkshire
Design: Ian Hazard Architects

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Church Lane Cottage, Hutton Buscel
This a refurbished Grade II Listed building is set in a Conservation Area within the North York Moors National Park.

7 Jan 2022
British Library Boston Spa
British Library Boston Spa
A major construction project will transform the 44-acre site – originally a World War II armaments factory, into a modern archive for the UK national library.

More Leeds Architecture News on e-architect soon.

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Leeds Architecture News 2021

26 Nov 2021
Lisbon Street Leeds Tower Building Development
Design: DLA Architecture

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Lisbon Street Leeds Tower Building Development
A £270 million development proposal to transform the former International Swimming Pool site at Lisbon Street in Leeds city centre has been granted full planning consent by Leeds City Council.

10 Nov 2021
Esther Simpson Building, Lyddon Terrace, Leeds University Business School and School of Law
Design: DLA Architecture

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Esther Simpson Building Leeds University

14 July 2021
British Library site at Temple Works, Temple District

photo © Harry Archer
British Library Temple Works Building, South Bank in the north of England

Leeds City Square Redevelopment Competition
Leeds City Square Redevelopment Competition

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Leeds Architecture News 2020

11 Sep 2020
Leeds Playhouse
Design: Page\Park Architects
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photograph : Jim Stephenson
Leeds Playhouse Building
The Leeds Playhouse has been transformed by a radical reconfiguration and extension of the existing building to create a new face for the organisation and improve accessibility for all.

16 Mar 2020
CEG Temple Scheme, Globe Road, Temple District
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS)

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Globe Point Leeds: CEG Temple District Scheme

16 Feb 2020
National Railway Museum York Design Competition
National Railway Museum York Design Competition

More current Leeds Architecture News online here soon.

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Leeds Architecture News 2019

25 Nov 2019
New Student Hub for the University of Leeds
Dublin architecture office O’Donnell & Tuomey win this Yorkshire design competition:
University of Leeds Western Campus Competition

12 Aug 2019
The Wesley, Oxford Place
Project manager and principal designer: Faithful+Gould with PBA (architects) & HLM Architects (interiors)

photo : Patrick Arends
The Wesley, Oxford Place Hotel
The SNC-Lavalin Group work with the Methodist Church on a conversion of its historic Oxford Place building into an ethical and environmentally responsible hotel.

8 Aug 2019
Lakes and Dales RIBA Architecture Competition Winners News

image courtesy of McMullan Studios
Lakes and Dales RIBA Architecture Competition Winners

18 Dec 2019
International Architecture Practice BDP Opens New Studio
Major international interdisciplinary architecture and engineering practice open a new design studio led by Architect Vicky Casey:
BDP Leeds Architects Office News

26 July 2019
Leeds City Village Development
Design: Brewster Bye Architects

image courtesy of developer
Leeds City Village Development

12 June 2019
Competition to design new student ‘hub’ on the University of Leeds western campus.
RIBA Competitions launch an architectural design competition on behalf of the University of Leeds:
University of Leeds Western Campus Competition

More Leeds Architecture News online soon.

West Yorkshire Architectural Updates 2018

15 Feb 2018
Maggie’s Yorkshire Centre, Bexley Wing, at St James’s University Hospital
Design: Heatherwick Studio

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Maggie’s Yorkshire Centre Building
Construction of this innovative building has started on site. The Centre’s design consists of a series of contained gardens that will capture the therapeutic effect of plants.

6 Feb 2018
Leeds Beckett University Creative Arts Building, Woodhouse Lane
Architects: Hawkins\Brown

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Leeds Beckett University Creative Arts Building

30 Jan 2018
Phase 3 of Sheffield’s Park Hill Redevelopment

photo © Daniel Hopkinson
Park Hill Phase 3 Sheffield Development
The transformation of the Park Hill Estate is entering a new phase. Urban regeneration specialist Urban Splash are working with student accommodation developer Alumno Developments to create accommodation for around 350 students, new shops and facilities.

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Yorks Property Development Updates 2006 – 2017

6 Dec 2017
Citu Home
Architects: White Arkitekter

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Citu Home in Leeds
Sustainable urban developer Citu unveil designs for its groundbreaking Citu Home – a new timber framed housing system which will create one of the most airtight and energy-efficient homes in the world.

6 Nov 2017
Victoria Gate – World Architecture Festival Project of the Year
Architects: ACME

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Victoria Gate Leeds Building
Victoria Gate wins the Retail Project of the Year at the World Architecture Festival (WAF).

6 Nov 2017
Emerald Headingley Stadium Redevelopment
Design: DLA Architects; Structural engineering design: TRP Consulting

image courtesy of architects
Emerald Headingley Stadium Redevelopment

3 Oct 2017
Environmentally friendly Office Project
Architects: DLA Design

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Large Sustainable Office Development in Leeds
By taking a three-stage approach to sustainability – passive, active and renewable – a spectacular new office and leisure complex in Leeds is created. The property development demonstrates how investing in a highly sustainable and innovative speculative building adds to market value and attracts high-profile tenants.

2 Aug 2017
Rievaulx Abbey Visitor Centre & Museum, Helmsley, North Yorkshire
Design: Simpson & Brown Architects

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Rievaulx Abbey Visitor Centre & Museum
The aim of the project was to upgrade the museum building to meet modern curatorial standards, encourage visitors into the ruins, and improve facilities. A glulam spruce central hall has been inserted into the existing L-shaped timber visitor centre.

12 Apr 2017
Sky Digital Centre of Excellence in Leeds – BCO Award
Design: BDG architecture + design, Architects

photos © Gareth Gardner
Sky Digital Centre of Excellence in Leeds Building