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What puzzled me here was that the contractors had dug a deep trench right across the site and inserted a large precast concrete culvert (some spare sections of it can be seen in the background). I'm not aware of a stream running across the site - the orientation is along rather than down the slope - so the purpose is unclear.

A new social housing development of 11 houses and 3 bungalows by Habinteg Housing, on the site of the former Wyther Park Community Centre, and opened in July 2018. Hall Way, named after Graham Hall Image, additionally links two existing roads, Raynville Road (this end) and Raynville Crescent, forming a convenient local short cut. A deep concrete culvert runs beneath the road Image

Part of a new social housing development of 11 houses and 3 bungalows by Habinteg Housing, on the site of the former Wyther Park Community Centre, and opened in July 2018.

The site had previously been a community centre Image but had been cleared ready for new construction. According to the planning application (leeds.gov.uk ref. 16/00509) the proposal by Habinteg Housing Association is for "11 affordable houses and 3 affordable bungalows, with associated parking and landscaping".

Viewed from the Houghley Gill footpath. A rectangular area within the Raynville Crescent Public Open Space, surrounded by metal fencing, and with evidence of previous floodlighting. I presumed it was a sports facility of some kind, but now disused and overgrown. However a subsequent planning application for housing on the site gave its previous use as the "Wyther Park Community Centre". Another document on Leeds Council website reveals that this was "used [from] 2006 until 2010 as a community hub for training and activities [but] there is no longer a demand for this facility".

The plaque commemorates Graham Hall (1953-2017), who worked for Habinteg Housing which developed the adjacent houses Image

There have been temporary traffic lights on the road or several weeks as contractors install multiple purple cable ducts. Usually such ducts are laid in the footpath, but I guess that with multiple operators now having cable networks in city areas the footpaths have become congested and they now have to be laid in the road itself, with heavy duty covers on the drawpits.

This 30mph road has had a speeding problem for some time. A new display installed in April 2024 tells drivers their actual speed. But there is no enforcement with this system, and I expect those who deliberately overspeed will not be persuaded otherwise.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm83925