Yorkshire & North East AGM

This year’s AGM event will be hosted again in Leeds this time at the iconic Tetley Building located in Aire Park. Due to a successful year in 2024 attendance will be free an on the day.

We will hear from representatives from the Client, Vastint and the Landscape Architect, Planit who will discuss the project and give a guided tour of the park’s development so far. We’ll also have an industry talk from TreeParker and their system brought to market. Plus the AGM, good food and a great opportunity to network with one another.

On the day

3:00pm – Aire Park Project Tour

3:45pm – Project Insight Talk, Vastint and PlanIt

4:30pm – TreeParker Cell System talk and demo

5:15pm – AGM

5:45pm – Food, drinks, Networking

7:00pm – Finish

Details

Aire Park

The vision for Aire Park has played a key role in the transformation of Leeds City Centre. A 24-acre mixed-use district, centred around an eight-acre park, creating a flourishing new commercial and residential neighbourhood on the city’s South Bank. Spanning over eight acres, the park has been thoughtfully designed to cater to a wide range o interests and activities. Whether you’re seeking a spot for quiet relaxation, looking for a place to meet with friends or attending an after-work event, the park is an all-inclusive space that has a little something for everyone.

1 – The Tetley Green

A soft terraced space with built-in seating perfect for relaxation, watching and dwelling

2 – Central Park

A large informal green space in the centre of the site, beautifully framed by trees.

3 – The Flowering Avenue

A picturesque linkway through the park, the Avenue is an iconic springtime attraction due to the bold blossoms of the many flowering trees.

4 – Exercise routes

The park creates a new 1km exercise route, perfect for jogging or a leisurely lunchtime stroll. 

5 – Spaces for play

A dedicated 600m2 play space for younger children with a naturalistic adventure theme.  

6 – Outdoor Events Space

A multi-functional all year-round space, which will be used for outdoor markets, performances and pop-up cinema events.  

A rich biodiversity

Interventions such as bug hotels, bird boxes, and pollinating gardens create an ecological haven. A variety in species and size of trees, many of them native, will be positioned to encourage wildlife corridors.

700 new Trees

The park will contain a vast mix of tree species and sizes including legacy trees which will grow to full maturity and be celebrated for generations to come.

The Tetley

The Tetley is the former headquarters of Joshua Tetley & Son, at one time the largest producer of cask beer in the world.

After closing its doors as a brewery in 2011, it reinvented itself as a contemporary art gallery and is now embarking on a new journey with Kirkstall Brewery at the helm.

Kirkstall Brewery is proud to take on the lease of The Tetley, with ambitious plans to transform this historic site into a vibrant hub for conferencing, events, food, and drink, enhancing its legacy as a cornerstone of Yorkshire’s cultural scene.

Vastint

Vastint is an international real estate organisation with over 30 years of experience creating long-term value through property investments. The cornerstones of their operations are the management of portfolio properties and the development of commercial and residential real estate. The cornerstones of their operations are development of commercial and residential real estate for further active management. Development activities include land acquisition, master planning, design, construction, leasing and sales. As of year 2020, Vastint’s activities further expanded with the inception of Hotel Co 51. This division operates many of the hotel properties within the Vastint portfolio.

Vastint is active in many countries across Europe, such as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Vastint is the abbreviation for “Vastgoed International”, which is Dutch for “International real estate”.

Planit

Planit provide Landscape architecture where they have a collaborative and sustainable approach to design delivers exemplary landscape and public realm schemes. Schemes that embed themselves within the communities they serve and seek to restore balance between people, place and nature.

They are an urban and rural place design practice, working to benefit people, places and the world at large. Whilst doing this they design for the living world, for today, tomorrow and the next 200 years.

They want to do this by seeing the world through the widest possible perspective: from community to climate, from nature to future with the purpose to create regenerative places.

Image credit to The Tetley Pub, Leeds