The Methleys - Leeds

This is a large neighbourhood scheme in a compact area. Housing is mainly terraced, with a few detached properties on the edge of the proposed Home Zone. The Streets are in a grid pattern bounded by two main roads, another residential area and commercial properties. A school is nearby.

Heads Together are the consultants for this scheme and helped organise a street party for the terraces in 1996. Their web-site reports: -
"The Methleys is a neighbourhood of some three hundred back-to-back and terraced houses on the of the inner city in Leeds. Heads Together worked closely with local residents group, Methleys Neighbourhood Action and national campaigning group, Transport 2000, to create a truly memorable event. Eight hundred square metres of turf were laid Methley Terrace over a weekend in August 1996 to create the Methleys own "village green". The turf formed the venue for a whole range of community events and achieved national publicity - everything from the Sun to the BBC Six o'clock News. It was also part of a process of creative consultation in the neighbourhood which is now leading to a permanent community garden at the top of Methley Terrace and the whole neighbourhood becoming one of country's first Home Zones; a residential area with priority for pedestrians."

Contact www.heads.demon.co.uk/

Copyright: Matthew Bridgestock, Home Zones Good Practice in Britain and Henbury, Bristol Feasibility Study, Publication date March 2000.

If you are interested in the full publication, e-mail Matthew

The Methleys web site itself can be found here http://www.methleys.org.uk/.