{"id":958776,"date":"2026-05-14T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958776\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:19:11","slug":"eyesore-kingsdale-court-flats-demolished-for-new-council-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958776\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Eyesore&#8217; Kingsdale Court flats demolished for new council homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The demolition of an &#8220;eyesore flats complex&#8221; has been completed as part of a project to build dozens of new affordable council homes.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds City Council began knocking down the eight apartment blocks that make up Kingsdale Court, in Boggart Hill, Seacroft, in October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council has now released details of plans to build 20 new houses, as well as two apartment blocks with a total of 59 flats, on the site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mary Harland, the authority&#8217;s executive member for housing, said: &#8220;The plans for the former Kingsdale Court site are a great example of our commitment to providing good-quality, energy efficient and affordable council housing in communities across the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The demolition of an &#8220;eyesore flats complex&#8221; has been completed as part of a project to build dozens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-958776","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958776","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=958776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}