120 Affordable Homes Leeds Approved on Lloyds Site

Breck’s largest Yorkshire scheme will turn a vacant Lloyds data and call centre near Dawsons Corner into 120 homes for shared ownership and affordable rent

Plans for 120 affordable homes Leeds councillors have been weighing for months have been approved, clearing the way to redevelop a vacant former Lloyds site in Farsley. Leeds City Council’s West Plans Panel granted consent on 6 August for developer Breck to transform the former Lloyds Banking Group data and call centre at Cote Lane, near Dawsons Corner, into a mix of houses and apartments. It is Breck’s largest scheme in Yorkshire to date. The seven-acre brownfield site, empty since the bank moved out in 2020, will deliver homes for shared ownership and affordable rent.

Why This Matters For Leeds

Affordable housing is one of Leeds’ most pressing needs and brownfield schemes like this are how the city meets it without eating into green space. Bringing a large, empty site back into use removes an eyesore and adds 120 homes. Repurposing surplus corporate sites for housing as a model could unlock more land across the city. For the local construction supply chain, a scheme running to 2029 also means a sustained pipeline of work. It is regeneration and housing delivery in one.

What Was Approved at Dawsons Corner

The scheme comprises 27 apartments and 93 houses, a mix of one and two-bedroom apartments and three and four-bedroom family homes, all arranged around new public green space with many properties gaining gardens. The plans were scaled back from an original 133 homes submitted last October and investment will also go into existing children’s play facilities nearby. Breck, which is in talks with a nominated housing provider to acquire the site on completion, expects to start on site in November and to finish by December 2029. The development was not waved through unopposed; it drew objections over density and road safety and Conservative councillor Andrew Carter called it in to the panel, citing the scale of the scheme. Labour councillor Craig Timmins spoke in favour, arguing the city must back well-designed brownfield schemes.

“If we are serious about tackling Leeds’s housing shortage, we must be prepared to support well-designed developments on suitable brownfield sites.”

— Councillor Craig Timmins, Calverley & Farsley, Leeds City Council

More Affordable Homes Leeds Can Use

The deal is notable beyond the homes themselves. Trade coverage reports it is the first fully affordable estate to come forward through Lloyds’ legacy estate strategy, a programme to repurpose the bank’s surplus land for housing, shaped in discussions with Homes England. If that model scales, it points to a new source of development land across Leeds and beyond. For Breck, a privately owned developer with offices in Preston and Leeds, it continues its rapid regional growth. The firm bought a Millshaw Park office near Leeds last year to accelerate its expansion and is already building three affordable schemes in Bradford. Delivering more affordable homes Leeds can actually use, on land that would otherwise sit empty, is the kind of regeneration the city has said it wants.