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Rose Bowl
07/02/06
Leeds
Metropolitan University is applying for planning permission to
develop a reflective ‘Rose Bowl’ lecture theatre complex,
next to the Civic Hall in Leeds. This is where the regional capital’s
civic, educational, business and cultural quarters meet. Wrapped
around the Rose Bowl will be the new home for the Leeds Business
School. The other part of the same faculty, Leeds Law School,
moved last year to be in the centre of the city region’s
legal professions at the historic Cloth Hall Court.
Leeds Met has already moved its film school into the Electric Press on Millennium Square and redeveloped the Northern Terrace of its Georgian buildings in Queen Square as home for its School of the Built Environment. Now, Leeds Met has acquired the landmark former BBC building, which will open this time next year as Old Broadcasting House, a meeting-place for the arts, enterprise and students, including the Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning Enterprise. New facilities will then be built to complete the new learning environment for the Faculty of Arts & Society. Meanwhile, less prepossessing buildings will be demolished.
The resulting transformation in the regional capital’s Civic Quarter will match the university’s spectacular campus in Headingley which is now twinned with the world-famous cricket and rugby grounds that have been renamed Headingley Carnegie Stadium. This fifteen year partnership agreement follows collaboration in developing the pioneering Carnegie Stand.
Stephen Willis, Director of Finance for Leeds Met, said, “Leeds
Met means business. We are committed to enterprise and to working
in partnerships. We would like to thank Leeds City Council, James
Poskitt (GMI), Downing and others for their support in this venture
which is a valuable
development for the city, its people and businesses.”
