Seacroft is an outer-city suburb/township consisting mainly of

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housing covering an extensive area of east

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, England. It lies in the LS14 Leeds postcode area, around east of

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. It sits in the Killingbeck & Seacroft ward of

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and Leeds East

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. The population of the corresponding Leeds City Ward was nearly 18,000 in 2001Office for National Statistics
2001 census for Seacroft ward 17,725 on 29 April 2001 and fell to 14,426 in 2011. The name is often used as a catch-all for Seacroft and the neighbouring areas of Whinmoor and Swarcliffe, other large east Leeds council estates which merge into each other. Seacroft includes one of the largest council estates in the country and Yorkshire's second-largest council estate, after Bransholme in

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. The latter, however, was part of

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county from 1974 to 1996. Because of its size, Seacroft has often been referred to as a town. The original vision, envisaged by the council, was that it would be a 'Town within the City Limits', and the Seacroft Civic Centre was often referred to as the 'Seacroft Town Centre'.Leodis photographic archive
Seacroft Town Centre, aerial view

The Green

Seacroft was at one time a small village between Leeds and

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. The

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, known as "The Green" still exists, and is one of the oldest in the country. It has the Cricketers Arms pub on the north side and St James parish church (built 1845, architect T. Hellyer) on the south side.

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preached on The Green, and as a result a Wesleyan Chapel (

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Church) was built close by.Leeds Methodist website
Seacroft Methodist Church Seacroft Green has a
active residents' association
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History

Seacroft village

Seacroft village is mentioned in the

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(1086). Evidence of much earlier inhabitation was found during construction of the estate in the 1950s. A stone axe dating from the

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age (3500–2100 BC) was found on Kentmere Avenue. In addition, two silver Roman coins were found on The Green in the 1850s. Seacroft Grange 11 Sep 2017

Seacroft village is the original part of Seacroft, around The Green and Cricketers Arms (pictured above), and is often referred to today. Seacroft Hall was built in the 17th century by the Shiletto family incorporating extensive landscaping and parkland. Despite being a

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, the hall was demolished in the 1950s. The original entrance lodge still stands on York Road, with Parklands School on South Parkway now occupying the location of the hall. There is one shop in the area that was originally Seacroft Village, a small village off licence, which has been built since the building of the estate. Seacroft Grange was built in 1627 for the Tottie family and is also known as Tottie Hall. It is a grade II listed building, along with its service buildings. Although the English Heritage record says it was rebuilt in 1837 other sources record the building as original, noting that in 1837 the new tenant John Wilson renamed it to Seacroft Grange and set his coat of arms over the door. The building included a celebrated late 17th century staircase thought to have been brought from

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. It is now part of Seacroft Grange Care Village. See also The Seacroft Village Preservation Society. There is an old non-operating windmill, that pre-dates the estate, which has been incorporated into a hotel (now known as the Britannia Hotel Leeds). SeacroftWindmill

Satellite town within the city boundary

The village developed slowly over the centuries and saw very little change until the post-war years. Work on the estate began in the 1950s. Many of the older houses on the estate are more traditional red-brick semis built around the Beechwood area, to the North of the estate. In the 1960s many

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and high-rise flats were constructed on the estate. Two main roads were built through the estate, these being North Parkway and South Parkway. North Parkway was built with a dual carriageway, in a similar way as Oak Tree Drive, Coldcotes Drive and Gipton Approach in neighbouring Gipton. In 1934, Leeds City Council bought for municipal housing, and after World War II the majority of houses and blocks of flats were built. The council had planned for Seacroft to be a "satellite town within the city boundary" In addition to this vision, other areas surrounding Seacroft were built using the same principle. In the 1960s building work in the Swarcliffe and Stanks areas started, and in the 1970s in Whinmoor. However, none of these were as large or ambitious as Seacroft, with the intention that these areas use many of the amenities built along with the Seacroft Estate such as the Civic Centre and Seacroft's secondary schools. As such amenities were kept to a minimum in Swarcliffe and Whinmoor, with the estates only having small local shops, public houses and primary schools. Seacroft also has the main central bus interchange for North East Leeds, although the nearest railway station is in Cross Gates.

Seacroft Civic Centre

The 1960s also saw the construction of the Seacroft Civic Centre, which was at the time a novel way of building an outdoor purpose built town centre. The Civic Centre had a Grandways supermarket and a Woolworths Group as well as many other smaller shops, banks, pubs and a library. In the 1990s it had become apparent that the condition of the Civic Centre had deteriorated significantly in the 30 years since its construction. Talks were held with

, and

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were found as the preferred bidder to rebuild the Seacroft Civic Centre.

Seacroft Green Shopping Centre

In 1999, work began clearing the site and in the 2000s (decade) the new Seacroft Green Shopping Centre opened. The

supermarket was cited at the time to be the largest in Europe, a claim which may not have been true. It is, however, still an enormous supermarket spread over two levels (the second being a large mezzanine level, which was built a few years after the Tesco store had opened to give more space within the store). The car park was also enlarged and other shop units were built along the side of the supermarket, making the centre a crescent shape. The huge supermarket as well as the other shops promised to create hundreds more jobs then would be lost through the loss of trade in the Civic Centre, which among other factors made the redevelopment favourable with many Seacroft residents. SeacroftSCentre

The Seacroft Green Shopping Centre is also the main transport interchange in Seacroft, with the main bus station for Seacroft and the surrounding areas being centred there. From here buses run out through the estate as well as to the

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Wetherby Wetherby () is a market town and civil parish in the City of Leeds district, West Yorkshire, England, close to West Yorkshire county's border with North Yorkshire, and lies approximately from Leeds City Centre, from York and from Harrog ...

and

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. Seacroft bus station has five stands and an average daily footfall of 2,687. (See Transport) The centre was not entirely popular with many local residents who said they had lost their town centre to a Tesco supermarket and to an extent, this may be true. Although there are shops besides Tesco, they are far fewer than there were, the precinct area has been lost, the pubs in the centre have been lost, and there are no offices. Until the building of the new centre, and since the closure of Grandways, it was said that Seacroft suffered from 'food poverty' and fresh produce could not be bought on the estate. This was probably not true as there was a

Co-op A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...

(now McColls in 2018) on South Parkway. The rebuilding of the Civic Centre did not alter the deprivation on the estate. Throughout the 2000s (decade), the condition of many of the houses on the estate deteriorated, particularly amongst the prefabricated housing to the South West of the estate. Many houses were vacated and either their condition or lack of demand dictated that the council boarded them up. The estate's high rise flats are seen as a refuge as they are harder to break into and in better condition than the houses, as such they have largely been allocated to older residents. Some (including Queensview) have become sheltered housing.

Amenities elsewhere

Regular bus services allow residents to use amenities in

, Cross Gates and

. The Cross Gates Centre (formerly Arndale Centre) provides many high street shops which Seacroft lacks, while Wetherby's many pubs make it an alternative destination for evening entertainment.

Architecture

Seacroft has a variety of styles of architecture. The area surrounding the green has many old buildings, dating back to the 18th century and before. The estate also shows a variety of different styles employed by

for the duration of the estate's construction. The earlier houses dating back to the 1950s are red brick traditional terraces and semis. In the late 1960s and 1970s

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was built towards the South West of the estate. The build quality of these houses was notably poor and many have now been demolished to be replaced with modern housing . The older council houses were generally built to a higher quality and are still in good condition. The

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Seacroft Civic Centre stood until its demolition in 1999, when it was replaced by the Seacroft Green Shopping Centre, which is of a fairly standard design for a large supermarket and purpose-built shops. There are also many high-rise blocks of flats around the estate, mainly near the Shopping Centre, towards the bottom of South Parkway and Beechwood Avenue, around the Ramshead area and in the Bogart Hill area. Starting in 2018, many new houses are being built on the eastern end of South Parkway. File:SeacroftHousesYorkRd1.jpg, Older housing, York Road, Seacroft Village File:SeacroftSemis.jpg, 1950s Semi-detached Council Housing File:KentmereAvenue.jpg, Later semi-detached houses File:SeacroftLRFlats.jpg, Low-rise flats File:SouthParkwayShopsLS14.jpg, Shops on the South Parkway Religious buildings include the stone-built St James's Parish Church (

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, 1845), a brick

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Chapel (1874), a brick

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(1951, badly damaged in an arson attack in 2015, leading to its demolition in 2017) and a brick

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, Our Lady of Good Counsel (1954). File:MethodistChurchSeacroft1874.jpg, Methodist Church (Wesleyan Chapel) (1874), now Chapel FM Arts Centre (2014–present) File:SeacroftCongChurch.jpg, Seacroft Congregational Church (1951) Demolished in 2017 File:LadyOfGoodCounselLeeds.jpg, Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church (1954) File:St Richards Church - viewed from Ramshead Hill (geograph 3985505).jpg, St Richard's CofE church File:St James's Church, Seacroft - geograph.org.uk - 140201.jpg, St James' CofE church predates the estate File:Church of the Ascension - Ironwood Approach, Seacroft - geograph.org.uk - 893946.jpg, Church of the Assumption, vacated by the church of England in 2012, now used by

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Seacroft Hospital

Seacroft Hospital is Leeds' third-largest

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, being significantly smaller than the Leeds General Infirmary and

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. Situated between Seacroft and

Killingbeck Killingbeck is a district of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England that is situated between Seacroft to the north, Cross Gates and Whitkirk to the east, Gipton to the west, Halton Moor to the south, Halton to the south-east and Osmondthorp ...

, opposite the former Killingbeck Isolation Hospital, the hospital is accessible from the A64 York Road. It was constructed between 1893 and 1904, with a brick clock tower (also a water tower) designed by E. T. Hall under

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influence.Steven Burt & Kevin Grady (2002) ''The Illustrated History of Leeds'' 2nd edn (Breedon Books, derby) Brian Godward (2004) ''The Changing Faces of Leeds'' (Sutton Publishing, Stroud) Services have been moved from Seacroft Hospital to other hospitals around Leeds. Many of the buildings are in a poor state of repair. The health authority, in keeping with its policy to concentrate all services at the Leeds General Infirmary and St James hospitals, considers selling off the older parts of the hospital for redevelopment.

Industry

There is a small industrial estate in Seacroft on Limewood Approach. Cable and Wireless had a depot there for many years, but it closed in 2008. On the estate, Seacroft Waste Sorting Facility is based,

have a major depot and Transco operated a small facility until 2008. Large factories of Agfa and

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are situated in nearby Whinmoor.

Education

Primary

The primary schools in Seacroft are: *Beechwood Primary School, Kentmere Avenue LS14 6QB *Grange Farm Primary Schoo

Bancroft Rise LS14 1AX *Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Primary School, Pigeon Cote Road LS14 1EP *Parklands Primary Schoo

Dufton Approach LS14 6ED *Seacroft Grange Primary School, Moresdale Lane, LS14 6JR

Secondary

The Bishop Young Church of England Academy opened on 1 May 2017, the building was previously the David Young Community Academy (DYCA) which was founded in 2006 and closed in spring of 2017, named after David Young, a former bishop of Ripon. It is a state-funded

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Politics

Seacroft falls into the Killingbeck & Seacroft electoral ward of

and Leeds East

, represented by Labour MP

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. As of

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, it has three Labour councillors.democracy.leeds.gov.uk
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Local media

The local newspaper for Seacroft is the ''

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'', thought the ''

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'' is also sold in the area (although its news coverage generally stops beyond the

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and Whinmoor areas). The local BBC radio station is

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. Many other Leeds radio stations can be received, but ChapelFM deals specifically with Seacroft and surrounding areas. Neighbouring areas such as Whinmoor are often covered in Wetherby's

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Reputation

Seacroft has a poor reputation across Leeds. A large portion of the housing is council owned, and the few jobs tend to be low paid casual or manual work. Many of the houses, particularly

around South Parkway have been boarded up and are unfit for any future habitation. This is due to a multimillion-pound city re-development scheme whose earlier progress can be seen in the similar estates around the Coal Road area. The area's poor reputation has been focused on by journalist

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. Neighbouring Gipton also shares this poor reputation. 85.49% of occupied houses in Seacroft fall within the Band A council tax rate (the lowest based on house values). However, the negative image of Seacroft was challenged in 2008 by a BBC article called 'The Estate' depicting life on the estate.

Recorded crime statistics

Below is a table from Leeds Observatory, detailing crime from 2018 ward in LS14 from March 2020 to February 2021.

Transport

Public transport

Seacroft bus station was rebuilt as part of the Seacroft Green Shopping Centre and has five drive-in-reverse-out stands. Buses go from here to

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and to other neighbouring areas of the city such as Cross Gates, Gipton and Whinmoor as well as Wetherby. First Leeds runs the majority of the services that serve the bus station. Their service 49 serves the Monkswood Gate area in the north of Seacroft, but not the bus station. The closest railway station is

Cross Gates Cross Gates (often spelled Crossgates) is a suburb in east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The area sits between Seacroft and Swarcliffe to the north, Whitkirk and Colton to the south, Killingbeck to the west and Austhorpe to the south ea ...

, with services operating to

, Garforth,

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, Halifax,

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and Scarborough.

East Leeds Orbital Route (ELOR)

Since the 1960s, the

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has been considered to create a social barrier between Seacroft and Swarcliffe, which prompted calls for a bypass around East Leeds' suburbs. The project started in summer 2018 and is set to build a new route linking the orbital Ring Road (A6120) at Red Hall to the A58, the A64 and Leeds Road to connect with

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at Junction 46 of the M1, set to be complete by summer 2023 with enhancement finished by autumn 2023. The East Leeds Orbital Route is the biggest infrastructure project undertaken by

for fifty years, since the completion of the

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in 1974. It is intended to ease congestion in existing residential areas like Cross Gates, Seacroft and

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, and will also play a key role in the growth plans for the city for years to come. It will allow the development of the surrounding areas of the road, with the development of possible new shops, houses, and schools.

Distances to nearby places of significance

* Cross Gates * Whinmoor * Scholes * Garforth *

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* Leeds Bradford International Airport *

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Location grid

References

External links

Seacroft Village Preservation Society websiteBBC News website "The Estate" article about Seacroft"Planting the food desert"
— Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the U.K.

— Website Dedicated to Queensview & Seacroft. * – Seacroft was in this parish

* ttp://www.seacrofttoday.co.uk/yourseacroft/Seacroft-History.1794815.jp ''Yorkshire Evening Post'', History of Seacroft* ttps://archive.today/20121224105633/http://www.wells-genealogy.org.uk/school/foxdemolition.htm Foxwood School in its final year {{City of Leeds Places in Leeds