{"id":319286,"date":"2025-08-05T07:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319286\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:55:10","slug":"clegg-wins-leeds-wellington-plaza-revamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/319286\/","title":{"rendered":"Clegg wins Leeds Wellington Plaza revamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"mfp-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/assets\/news_articles\/2025\/08\/1754378871_wellington-plaza.jpg\" title=\"The new building at 31 Wellington Street has been designed by DLA \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/750x500_top_1754378871_wellington-plaza.jpg\" alt=\"The new building at 31 Wellington Street has been designed by DLA \" class=\"captioned-image__image responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nThe new building at 31 Wellington Street has been designed by DLA <\/p>\n<p>Clegg Construction has been appointed as main contractor to oversee the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/search\/demolition?utm_source=tci_news&amp;utm_medium=auto_keyword_link\" title=\"Search for suppliers of Demolition\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-linked-keyword\" rel=\"noopener\">demolition<\/a> of a 1980s four-storey office building on Wellington Street in Leeds and replace it with a new eight-storey block with 77,000 sq ft of office space.<\/p>\n<p>Joint venture developers Prescient Capital and Asset Capital secured planning consent for the redevelopment in 2023 with Prescient subsequently taking over 100% of the project. <\/p>\n<p>The design of 31 Wellington Street has been led by DLA Architects, which previously designed some of Leeds\u2019s most prominent office buildings. DLA is supported by civil\/structural engineer Roscoe and building services engineer Thornley &amp; Lumb.<\/p>\n<p>Site preparation works have started with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/search\/demolition?utm_source=tci_news&amp;utm_medium=auto_keyword_link\" title=\"Search for suppliers of Demolition\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-linked-keyword\" rel=\"noopener\">demolition<\/a> due to start from this September and project completion anticipated by July 2027, which is more than a year behind the programme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/news\/view\/leeds-wellington-plaza-set-for-50m-revamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when we last reported on this scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"margin-top--md margin-bottom--md\"><b>Got a story?<\/b> Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/news\/view\/mailto:news@theconstructionindex.co.uk?subject=News%20Story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news@theconstructionindex.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new building at 31 Wellington Street has been designed by DLA Clegg Construction has been appointed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,33973,41585,5168,41582,41583,41584,41581,41580,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-319286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-building","10":"tag-civil-engineering","11":"tag-construction","12":"tag-construction-companies","13":"tag-construction-contractors","14":"tag-construction-contracts","15":"tag-construction-jobs","16":"tag-construction-news","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-leeds","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114975088664969393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319286","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=319286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}