Bramley Redevelopment
Much of Bramley was redeveloped in the 1960s and 1970s. The Bramley Shopping Centre replaced the former town centre. The Bramley Shopping Centre was Leeds' second purpose built town centre after Seacroft town centre. Unlike Seacroft town centre the Bramley Shopping Centre replaced an existing town centre. The redevelopment was to replace substandard shops and houses. Many of the shops and cottages were dilapidated and in need of repair.
However in retrospect the redevelopment of Bramley has been condemned as one of the least sensitive redevelopment programmes in Yorkshire. In 2008 the Yorkshire Evening Post ran an article on the "lost town centre" and featured pictures of Bramley prior to redevelopment. The article had a critical slant on its analysis of the redevelopment, echoing feelings that a unique and historic Yorkshire town centre was replaced by a generic, modernist, concrete shopping precinct.
Much of "Historical Bramley" is now protected by the Bramley Town Conservation Area which focuses on the area around Bramley Park, across to Hough lane.
Bramley is also home to LILAC, the UK’s first affordable green cohousing project.
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