Halton Moor
| Halton Moor | |
|---|---|
 The Halton Moor public house | |
| Metropolitan borough | |
| Metropolitan county | |
| Region | |
| Land | England |
| Sovereign state | Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Post town | LEEDS |
| Postcode district | LS15 |
| Dialling code | 0113 |
| Police | West Yorkshire |
| Fire | West Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| UK Parliament | |
Halton Moor is a district of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, located around three miles east of Leeds city centre and is close to the A63. It is situated between Killingbeck to the north, Temple Newsam to the south, Osmondthorpe to the west and Halton and Colton to the east.
The area is mainly a council housing estate with approximately 1000 homes, made up of mainly semi-detached houses, with some detached houses, some terraced houses and some high rise blocks. Halton Moor lies entirely within the LS15 postcode, with Wyke Beck forming its western boundary.
History
Prior to the 20th century, Halton Moor was open land between Osmondthorpe, constructed in the late 19th Century, and the older village of Halton. The Halton Moor estate was built in the 1930s, one of several low-density housing estates in Leeds built to accommodate the growing population and to house people moved from the areas of high-density housing destroyed in the inner-city slum clearances.[1]
Through the 1980s and 1990s, the estate suffered a period of decline. Although the estate benefited from estate action funding from 1989, by 2000 the decline was so marked that a committee of MPs recommended the estate for demolition and reconstruction.[2] However, following substantial intervention on the estate, both through renovation of the housing stock and selective demolition of harder to let properties, the estate is now seen as having good scope for continuing regeneration.[3]
Geography and demographics
Halton Moor was built as a low density garden suburb, one of several constructed in Leeds in the 1930s and 1940s.[4] It is set on the side of a hill overlooking East End Park and Leeds City Centre. The western boundary of Halton Moor is marked by Wyke Beck, a tributary of the River Aire which rises in Roundhay Park and discharges into the River Aire at Rothwell.[5]
The estate is laid out around Coronation Parade, a central boulevard running east to west. Several roads running broadly north to south following the contours of the hillside, while at the centre of the estate is a relatively large open greenspace. Subsequently, substantial traffic calming including the installation of speed cushions and bumps, chicanes and selective road closures have been introduced on the estate to reduce the level of joyriding.[2] To the north of the Halton Moor Estate but forming part of Halton Moor as a whole is the Sutton Park Estate, an older housing estate built by the William Sutton Housing Trust and now part of the Affinity Sutton housing association. In 2011, construction of 54 new homes including a number built to the German 'passivhaus' standard for low energy development was completed.[6]
Halton Moor combined with the Wykebecks in Osmondthorpe has a population of around 6,233 people.[7] 5.43% of the population is from a BME background, around half the proportion for Leeds as a whole. The area has higher than average levels of benefit claimants and worklessness, though it compares favourably to Leeds as a whole for indicators around quality of housing and environment, and community safety.[7]
Religious sites
The whole of the Halton Moor estate is within the Anglican parish of St Wilfrid, Halton, which is is a grade II* listed church built in 1939 at a cost of £11,700 and designed by A. Randall Wells.[8] The church is in the Arts and Crafts style and still has many of the original fittings designed by Wells as well as contemporary art by Eric Gill.[9]
On the Halton Moor estate, the current Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church was opened in 1962. Until 2008, the church was not part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds, but was instead under the jurisdiction of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a French Roman Catholic order.[10][11] Corpus Christi has primary and secondary schools operated by the Diocese of Leeds associated with it.
Regierung
Halton Moor is within the Temple Newsam Ward of Leeds City Council. Following the council elections of 2011 the ward is represented by two Labour councillors and one Conservative councillor.
Halton Moor is within the Leeds East parliamentary constituency, represented by George Mudie (Labour). Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for Yorkshire and the Humber European Parliament constituency since the European Parliament election, 2009, are Godfrey Bloom (UK Independence Party), Andrew Brons (BNP), Timothy Kirkhope (Conservative), Linda McAvan (Labour), Edward McMillan-Scott (Liberal Democrat), and Diana Wallis (Liberal Democrat).[12]
Notable people
The entrepreneur and philanthropist Jimi Heselden was born and brought up in Halton Moor.[13]
The author and playwright Keith Waterhouse moved to Halton Moor from Hunslet,[13] and attended Osmondthorpe School.[14]
Simon Clifford, the football coach and owner of Garforth Town A.F.C., taught for several years at Corpus Christi Catholic Primary school in Halton Moor.[15]
The former Wales international footballer Aubrey Powell, who also played for Leeds United, Everton and Birmingham City lived for many years in Halton Moor following his retirement from football.[16]
Media perception
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CCTV Cities
Halton Moor was recently the focus of television series CCTV Cities in which journalist Donal MacIntyre focused on crime and delinquency in the area. The programme showed arson on Bonfire Night (during which police were attacked with fireworks), car theft, joyriding. When the police attempted to seize a stolen vehicle, they were forced to retreat when missiles were thrown at them, the car was regained by the criminals and later found abandoned after being used in a ram raid robbery.[17][18]
Yorkshire Evening Post
On 10 September 2008, the Yorkshire Evening Post reported that Leeds City Council spent £119,000 each year on employing security guards to patrol the car parks at East Leeds Leisure Centre, to prevent car thefts and vandalism. This has led Leeds City Council to consider moving the facilities to York Road. A Wetherby councillor highlighted other troubled centres cost between £25,000 and £30,000 each year to patrol.[19] It was suggested that centres where this issue is not a problem suffered because of this and the YEP stated that Bramley Baths, Aireborough (Guiseley), Pudsey, Scott Hall, Kirkstall, Rothwell and Wetherby leisure centres could all be improved if centres like Halton Moor and Middleton were closed.
Look North
On 25 September 2008, Look North (the local BBC news programme) reported on police raids on the estate that had taken place throughout the day during which the cultivation of cannabis was discovered in a private residence, a fire arm was found in another private residence and several thousand pounds in laundered cash was recovered. Several residents were arrested during the days raids. However the programme reported on the estate positively, implying that improvements had been made, stating it was 'once one of Leeds' most deprived estates'. The footage showed boarded up houses on the estate as well as BBC library footage of the estate during the 1980s showing the aftermath of disturbances and burnt out cars.[20]
Location grid
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References
- ^ "The working classes". Discovering Leeds. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ a b "Proposed Urban White Paper". Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Eleventh Report. House of Commons. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ Jones, Huw. "Halton Moor Housing Market Assessmen" (PDF). re'new.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "Discovering Leeds Poverty and Riches The Working Classes". Leeds City Council. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "From Roundhay to Rothwell The Wyke Beck Way" (PDF). The Wyke Beck Way Community Forum. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ ""Passivhaus" Pilot Project, Leeds". Ainsley Gommon Architects Ltd. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ a b "E02002401: Halton Moor, Wykebecks" (PDF). Leeds City Council. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ Church of St Wilfrid
- ^ Halton St Wilfrid: Our history and architecture
- ^ Minnis, John. "A survey and gazetteer of places of worship 1900-2005" (PDF). Religion in Leeds. English Heritage. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
- ^ "Together in Hope". Diocese of Leeds. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "Your MEPs Members of the European Parliament MEPs". Leeds City Council. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
- ^ a b "Jimi Heselden Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "Keith Waterhouse Obituary". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "If soccer were a different ball game". Times Educational Supplement. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ "Former Leeds United star dies". Yorkshire Evening Post. 30 January 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
- ^ http://demand.five.tv/Episode.aspx?episodeBaseName=C5137270001
- ^ Dowell, Ben (31 March 2008). "MacIntyre to focus on CCTV for Channel Five". The Guardian. London.
- ^ "Leeds leisure centre security costs £119,000 a year". Yorkshire Evening Post. 4 September 2008.
- ^ "Clean up for crime-hit estate". BBC. 25 September 2008.
