As part of the Leeds Local Plan Update, Leeds City Council (LCC) have been considering the concept of 20min Neighbourhoods. This has broadly been endorsed, but to gain more meaningful understanding of what makes up a 20 minute neighbourhood LCC are undertaking research to ask local communities and representative groups which facilities and services are important to them and what they expect to be able to access within a 10 minute walk/cycle from their home. For example you may feel that access to primary schools and greenspace is essential, whereas access to a library would be desirable.

Once LCC have collated the responses, the answers will be averaged and a mathematical weighting will be applied to rank the expectations of importance of what uses can reasonably be expected to be within 10 minutes walk.  These will then be mapped to understand where existing communities have good or poor access to the identified facilities/services.

The survey is made available for local residents and community groups and LCC encourage you to share this within your community.

Survey Link – Local plan update: Placemaking – 20min Neighbourhoods Research

The opportunity to take part in this research is open from Friday 27 May 2022 for a period of three weeks. The survey will close on Friday 17 June 2022.

If you need to speak to someone about this research then please email localplan@leeds.gov.uk or telephone (0113) 37 87993.

Leeds City Council

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