New homes released for sale at the award winning Climate Innovation District in Leeds

New homes have been released for sale at the award-winning Climate Innovation District. Recently named “The best address in Leeds”, the CID features Yorkshire’s most energy efficient new-build properties.The location on the revitalised riverside in walking distance of Leeds city centre has also been a draw, along with the development’s car-free streets policy, which sees vehicles tucked away in a secure undercroft at the rear of the site.The new collection of four-bedroom townhouses at the low-carbon development includes two new home designs, River View houses with a waterfront position with private decking, and Roof Top Garden properties with gardens on the roof and panoramic views
Sharon Dale
By Sharon Dale
Published 12th Apr 2023, 16:45 BST
Updated 12th Apr 2023, 16:45 BST

Both house types feature open plan stairwells, 180-degree doors, balustrades, porcelain tiles on the roof decking, light timber floor finishes, white kitchens with Corian worktops and kitchen islands. The popular triple-height lightwells also remain a feature of the River View Houses.

In common with all homes at the Climate Innovation District, which was conceived to reduce carbon emissions, energy efficiency is central to the design and manufacture of the properties.

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The houses mark the introduction of the second Citu Home system, the company’s most energy and carbon efficient technology to date, which reduces energy consumption to a fifth of that of an average home.

A roof top gardenA roof top garden
A roof top garden

All the homes have air-tight membranes, triple-glazed windows, mechanical ventilation and heat recovery systems and air source heat pumps plus high-speed full fibre broadband and smart technology.

The houses are manufactured on site and Citu encourages would-be buyers to visit the state-of-the-art home-building factory. Renewable energy is also produced on site and the landscape is designed to encourage nature to flourish and residents to choose walking over driving.

Citu introduced the first new houses to be built in Leeds city centre in nearly one hundred years when the Climate Innovation District was launched in 2018.

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The need for housing has proved popular with downsizers keen to move from the suburbs to be closer to the city centre while retaining a spacious home and with families and couples planning for a family in the future.

A bedroom in a Roof Top HouseA bedroom in a Roof Top House
A bedroom in a Roof Top House

Jonathan Wilson, managing director at Citu, who owns a home and who lives and works at the Climate Innovation District, said: “These new houses play a crucial role in the creation of the Climate Innovation District and will mark the completion of the frontage along the River Aire and phase one of the wider 22- acre development. They are the only waterfront houses you can buy in Leeds.

“The River Aire is a source not only of inspiration for our designers and relaxation for our residents, but it is teeming with wildlife and its banks are well-loved by runners and walkers.”

Once complete, the Climate Innovation District will feature 955 low carbon homes underpinned by climate conscious leisure facilities, offices and a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility where the buildings are made.

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A basketball court already is in place with a football pitch to follow. Planning permission has been granted for the UK’s first multigenerational building that will include a primary school, care home and apartments in one space, with completion anticipated in 2025.

River View Houses and Roof Top Garden Houses are available from £480,000 and a new show home is now open. They are ready to move into from June 2023. Visit www.citu.co.uk

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