{"id":334514,"date":"2025-08-11T01:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334514\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T01:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:15:29","slug":"rachel-reeves-visits-farsley-mill-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334514\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves visits Farsley mill development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds West and Pudsey MP Rachel Reeves has visited Springfield Mills in Farsley to see the progress on a new development for growing businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Eight new hybrid units are being built to help fulfil the demand from commercial enterprises, who are increasingly looking for modern and flexible spaces to suit their evolving needs.<\/p>\n<p>The units each consist of a ground floor workshop and first floor office space with dedicated<br \/>parking. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Springfield-Mills-Visit-1-RT-Hon-Rachel-Reeves-L-Jasper-Jacob-OGL-Construction-C-and-Chris-Pratt-R-D.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184960\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Chancellor of the Exchequer Ms Reeves said: \u201cIt was a pleasure to visit Springfield Mills and see the work they\u2019re doing to expand their units. Farsley continues to attract more inward investment from businesses, creating jobs and helping grow the local economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Pratt, Director, Gaunts Ltd, who run Springfield Mills, said: \u201cWe receive many enquiries from businesses for this kind of space, so it made sense from a practical and environmental point of view, to use the existing land we have here. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to be working with regional firms OGL Construction, Shelby Group and architects Bowman Riley from the start on all aspects of design, build, costings and detailed plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaunts Ltd is a family-owned company dating back to 1896. As well as textile mill sites in Leeds they have an expanding range of commercial properties, across West and North Yorkshire including Skipton, Knaresborough, Ilkley and Shipley. Any businesses interested in the units, should contact John Giles on 0113 236 3555.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-18.31.46-638x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164818\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds West and Pudsey MP Rachel Reeves has visited Springfield Mills in Farsley to see the progress on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115007489747274070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334514","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=334514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}