Queensview Multi-Storey Flats, Seacroft, Leeds.

Queensview is a 17 storey block of flats built in 1966 by Terson for Leeds City Council, which is now managed by "East North East Homes Leeds " near to the Seacroft Village Green,  Queensview  was converted into a Sheltered Housing block in 1997.

The ground floor flats were converted into two communal rooms, two disabled showers, two disabled toilets, a launderette and two offices. The residents flats are equipped with the Leeds City Council,  24 hour Care Ring system, there are two resident wardens, and a resident caretaker/warden, backed up by a 1st class Home Care Service..  With a digital  CCTV system in situ, it now provides a safe and secure environment for its 90+ elderly residents. The old second floor entrance has now been converted to a snooker room for residents.

 The demolition of  the old Seacroft Shopping Centre  took place in March 1999. Demolition was carried out by Ken Moorhead Excavations Limited. The main contractors were Quarmby Construction Ltd. , who along with Leeds City Council, East Leeds Family Learning Centre, USDAW. the Employment Service, Asda St James, Elida Faberge and Tesco worked towards the regeneration of Seacroft, this arrangement  is called the Seacroft Partnership. 

 In place of the old Centre there is a new  Tesco Extra  24 hour superstore, additional shop units comprising of Ladbrokes, Yorkshire bank PLC, Post Office Counters, Jack Fulton Frozen Foods, Johnson Cleaners Uk Ltd., Superdrug,  Thomas Cook travel agents, Tesco filling station, Peacocks Clothes Limited, Subway,   Brantano  footware, and a new bus terminus. The development is called  "The Seacroft Green Shopping Centre"  WYMAS ambulance service were relocated from the back of the old Town Centre to a new ambulance station at Ramshead Approach.

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Do you know, or are you? one of the two boys on the other side of the road, old York Road, the Blacksmiths shop!