{"id":352648,"date":"2025-08-17T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352648\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:00:54","slug":"former-leeds-crossgates-library-could-fetch-400k-at-auction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352648\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Leeds Crossgates library could fetch \u00a3400k at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pugh Auctions\u00a0said the property had been partly cleared by the current owner, but renovations would be needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The building fetched \u00a3482,000 when it was first sold by the same auction firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The library site had been vacant since May 2022 and was deemed surplus to requirements by Leeds City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority said the building was too big for the library service and alternative uses could not be found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In January 2024, about 70 campaigners held a protest outside the building, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c982d5rgjrgo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying they were &#8220;angry&#8221;<\/a> at the choices Leeds City Council had made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But speaking at the time, a council spokesperson said the authority had to sell the building due to its financial situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pugh Auctions\u00a0said the property had been partly cleared by the current owner, but renovations would be needed. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-352648","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\/115046363308657378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352648","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=352648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}