{"id":1174076,"date":"2026-08-28T11:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1174076\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:33:22","slug":"flats-in-former-beeston-church-to-be-sold-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1174076\/","title":{"rendered":"Flats in former Beeston church to be sold at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Methodist-Church-on-sale.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Sixteen flats in the former Trinity Methodist Church on Tempest Road in Beeston are to be sold at auction after the landlord, Leeds Federated Housing Association, decided the required investment to bring them up to their standard \u201cwould not represent the best use of our resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The housing association converted the building about thirty years ago, with the congregation moving next door into the church hall, before Faith Together in Leeds 11 converted the building into the Hamara Healthy Living Centre and built the Building Blocks nursery on the site of Holy Spirit\u2019s church hall. The church building itself dates from 1907.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Leeds Federated said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe homes in question no longer meet the standards we aim to provide for customers, particularly in terms of energy efficiency, accessibility and the level of investment now needed to maintain them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter carefully considering the options, we determined that the significant investment needed would not represent the best use of our resources. By selling them, we can reinvest into building new, affordable homes that meet modern standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approach means we can continue to provide higher-quality, energy-efficient homes, helping to reduce customers\u2019 energy costs while ensuring our investment delivers the greatest long-term benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The flats are due to be sold at by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auctionhouse.co.uk\/westyorkshire\/auction\/lot\/151632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Auction House<\/strong><\/a> on 9 September 2026 and have a guide price of \u00a3475,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Auction House<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While you\u2019re here, can we ask a favour?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">South Leeds Life is published by a not-for-profit social enterprise. We keep our costs as low as possible but we\u2019ve been hit by increases in the print costs for our monthly newspaper which have doubled in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Could you help support local community news by making a one off donation, or even better taking out a supporters subscription?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Donate here, or sign up for a subscription at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>bit.ly\/SLLsubscribe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen flats in the former Trinity Methodist Church on Tempest Road in Beeston are to be sold at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1174077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[15750,748,393,4884,6333,1860,150909,92767,318298,318299,16,15],"class_list":["post-1174076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-auction","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-housing","tag-leeds","tag-leeds-federated-housing-association","tag-tempest-road","tag-trentham-street","tag-trinity-methodist-church","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117172924605073170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}