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Work has started on a major new sports hub in Calverley, set to offer top class sports pitches and a completely new space for the community to meet.

From left to right: (L-R): Hannah Simpson from West Riding FA, Sean Birdsall from Modcon, Mark Coulson from Leisure United, Councillor Salma Arif, Jack Matthews from Football Foundation, Stephen Miller from CLS and Adrian Swain from CLS.

Three new full-sized artificial 3G pitches and one new natural grass pitch will ensure that all local junior sports teams have equal access to quality facilities. The £9.6million development has been part funded through one of the largest ever grants from the Premier League, the FA and Government’s Football Foundation.

New Briggate, pictured in 1944. Credit: Leeds Libraries.

A set of steps on New Briggate leading to St John's churchyard. Yorkstone paving has been put in place at the approach to the steps as part of heritage-led improvement work.

A close-up view of one of the properties where Heritage Action Zone improvement work has been carried out on New Briggate.

Councillor Jonathan Pryor (Leeds City Council's deputy leader and executive member for economy, transport and sustainable development) outside the Grand Arcade, where a section of terrazzo paving has been restored during heritage-led improvement work.

Councillor Jonathan Pryor (Leeds City Council's deputy leader and executive member for economy, transport and sustainable development) on New Briggate, where shops and commercial units have benefited from heritage-led improvement work.