Featured on Celebs Go Dating and offering your very own Love Island experience, The Secret Garden glamping is an Instagram paradise made for sharing online.
Promising five-star luxury, the latest pod from The Secret Garden is a unique glamping experience set in a beautiful 2.5 acre woodland.
Jump in the hot tub and unwind from the day gone bye whilst the log burner provides the perfect backdrop to cosy evenings lounging on seats and watching the stars underneath the night sky.
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Watch Netflix nestled between the trees or help yourself to chilled drinks aplenty from the outdoor bar area where amenities like an ice machine and huge cooking area will keep foodies entertained all night long.
Complete with a bright pink rope swing and hammock, this is glamping like you've never seen it before.
Inside your private tent, the luxe-cosy atmosphere extends through to the bedroom. Velvet pastel sofas, floral headboards and plants decorating everywhere from the ceiling to the floor all proudly parade the pink colour scheme- and that's before you've seen the centre piece of the bed itself.
Featuring decadent marble flooring with underfloor heating to keep toes toasty and walls covered in bright flowers spanning to even the bathroom: this staycation really does look like its been taken straight from a reality TV set.
Named The Glade, this luxury glamping tent sits alongside award-winning staycation from The Secret Garden, where all tents are unique and each just as Instagrammable.
Having been featured on BBC1, Channel 4, E4 and Channel 5 on respective TV shows Hot Tub Brits, Four in a Bed and Celebs Go Dating, the only TV show left yet to make an appearance is a UK version of Love Island- but if the organisers do ever choose to make a staycation, we can bet this will be a firm contender.
Located in Lancashire, The Secret Garden staycations are all under 90 minutes from Leeds city centre, making them the ideal weekend getaway for any northerner looking to spend their out of office hours in a location for their social media.
For more information, including how to bag yourself a night at The Glade, visit The Secret Garden website.
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Lane7 bowling and activity bar alley to open its first location in Leeds next year
Well-known UK bowling activity bar Lane7 is set to open its first-ever location in Leeds in 2025.
The bowling alley and entertainment specialists already have a site in Sheffield, and another site is coming to York very soon, making Leeds the third venue in the region.
Set to pop up in the city centre, they'll be opening just down the road from popular adult playground and competitor, Roxy Ball Room - more specifically their Roxy Lanes site.
Lane7 Leeds will take over the former Wilko shop on Albion Street, which closed following the franchise's widespread financial struggles back in 2023.
The lot has been vacant ever since and now a poster plastered in the window has revealed the company's intentions another Yorkshire outpost.
With 18 locations already up and running in the UK, the Leeds bowling alley along with plans to open in Northern Ireland and Wales will see them surpass 20 different sites.
Started in Newcastle back in 2013, in just over a decade the bowling and activity bar has managed to carve a strong following in an already saturated corner of the hospitality and entertainment sector.
Like Roxys, Lane7 also offers other games like mini golf, ping pong and pool, arcade machines and more, not to mention plenty of food and drink offerings.
Most notably, each venue works with local chefs to create unique menus for each city rather than a strictly standardised offering across the board.
For instance, our friends over at The Manc are treated to the equally popular chain Fat Hippo as the in-house vendors.
The dirty burger connoisseurs also have a restaurant here in Leeds, so maybe we'll see them appear at this new Lane7 too, but we'll leave the fun of guessing what else it could be up to you.
Although there is still very little information on an exact opening date, we think we can safely expect Lane7 Leeds to arrive sometime in 2025. We'll keep you posted.
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Planning permission submitted for new residential development with 384 flats near Leeds city centre
Clementine Hall
A planning application has been submitted to build a new 'car free' multi-storey residential development with 384 build to rent homes.
Designed by architects Woods Bagot, the proposed development would feature a host of green spaces and commercial units just off Armley Road near Leeds city centre.
The new urban community would be designed around the "principles of sustainability and placemaking".
The applicant describes the exciting project as a "car free development" with "green spaces to be enjoyed by its residents and the community as a whole".
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If approved, the development would create a whopping 384 new build to rent flats with on-site management and "high quality" amenities.
The apartment block would consist of a mix of 199 one-bedroom, 139 two-bedroom and 46 three-bedroom flats, along with rooftop terraces for residents and ground floor amenity spaces across three blocks.
Externally, there would be 29,000 sq ft of landscaped areas and a residents’ terrace of 5,700 sq ft.
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It is part of a wider plan to regenerate the area, with plans also to redevelop the vacant land on the southwest side of Armley Road at the junction with Wellington Road.
The site is subject to a previously approved outline planning consent originally submitted to Leeds City Council back in February 2021.
Leeds City Council’s planning committee has scheduled consultation for Monday 26 August, with any comments on the plans to be submitted by Monday 2 September.
Sophie Smith -
5th January 2023 
