It was the Leeds slum which became notorious for tailoring and sweatshops. The Leylands occupied an area between Vicar Lane and North Street (to the west) and Eastgate and Regent Street (to the ...

The Leader of Leeds City Council, Andrew Carter, disagrees and says Hutchinson’s attacks are "a gross overstatement". He says: "We have not built any slums and neither have the private developers." ...

A leading architect who predicted the building boom in Leeds was creating the "slums of the future" has returned to the city to say "I was right". With more than one in 10 city centre apartments ...

A Leeds Acorn statement said: “You need a licence to cut hair, you need a licence to look after dogs, but you don’t need a licence to house people. "We don’t think that’s right and we’re demanding ...

Student housing charity Unipol said rubbish tended to be left around the 30 June move-out date Piles of rubbish left in the street by students moving house at the end of term have left residents ...

Most were demolished in the slum clearances of the 20th century, and today, they have all but disappeared from the UK’s housing stock — except in the city of Leeds, where they remain extremely ...