About L.S.D.G

LSDG: An Introduction

Leeds Sustainable Development Group is a network of individuals who share a commitment to their city and want to work together to maike it better. LSDG’s first objective is to create a self-sustaining, open and inclusive forum to enable everyone in Leeds to say what sort of place they want to live in, to put forward ideas and to participate in developing proposals and options at a stage when it can make a difference.

The second objective is to contribute to the promotion of a wide-ranging debate, bringing together the city, its practitioners, academics, thinkers, designers, researchers and others who have an interest in, or wish to make a contribution to, the creation of a shared vision for Leeds.

These objectives have been agreed on the understanding that there is an over-riding need matched by a current opportunity to investigate new approaches to create truly sustainable forms of development for the city.

In his presentation at the first Leeds City Centre Vision Conference in January 2008, Gary Lawrence, Arup’s Global Director for Sustainability said that if Leeds wants to change and progress “it must make a clear choice about sustainability and then align behind the people who are prepared to lead the change”. The LSDG has decided that there is a need for radical change in the way we plan our future and there is an opportunity in the current economic and political climate of change to take stock, reassess the City’s role in the future and contribute to the need to deliver long-term sustainable development by linking rigorous analysis with a shared vision for the future.

To download the above report on the Long View for Leeds City Centre South please visit the LSDG Documents or Links pages.