Seacroft

Seacroft est une banlieue de Leeds, Yorkshire de l'Ouest, au Royaume-Uni. La région souffre d'un taux élevé de criminalité, la pauvreté, l'analphabétisme et de privation.

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Seacroft is an outer-city suburb/township consisting mainly of council estate housing covering an extensive area of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the LS14 Leeds postcode area, around 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Leeds city centre. It sits in the Killingbeck & Seacroft ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds East parliamentary constituency. The population of the corresponding Leeds City Ward was nearly 18,000 in 2001 and fell to 14,426 in 2011. The name is often used as a catch-all for Seacroft and the neighbouring areas of Whinmoor and Swarcliffe, other large east Leeds council estates which merge into each other. Seacroft includes one of the largest council estates in the country and Yorkshire's second-largest council estate, after Bransholme in Kingston upon Hull. The latter, however, was part of Humberside county from 1974 to 1996. Because of its size, Seacroft has often been referred to as a town. The original vision, envisaged by the council, was that it would be a 'Town within the City Limits', and the Seacroft Civic Centre was often referred to as the 'Seacroft Town Centre'.

St James' Church, Seacroft

The Church of the St. James in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is Grade II listed.

Leeds East Academy

Leeds East Academy (formerly Parklands Girls High School) is a secondary school with academy status, in the Seacroft area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Previously, the school had been an all-girls school, being the last single-sex school in Leeds. With about 350 pupils, Parklands Girls High School was small for an urban secondary school: Leeds City Council, concluding segregated education was unpopular, made the school mixed-sex, renamed Parklands High School. The school is now an academy and has a partnership with Leeds West Academy and Leeds City Academy as part of The White Rose Academies Trust. Leeds West and Leeds East Academies were previously sponsored by E-ACT, however in 2014 the schools joined the White Rose Academies Trust with Leeds City College as their sponsor. The Trust are now part of the Luminate Education Group, which also oversees Leeds City College, Keighley College, and Harrogate College. The school moved to new buildings in April 2013.

Chapel FM

Chapel FM is an arts centre that runs East Leeds FM, a community radio station based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It initially started in 2003 as East Leeds FM when Heads Together Productions, a Huddersfield-based community arts organisation, worked with local East Leeds high school John Smeaton Academy to form the project. In 2014, they acquired the Seacroft Chapel, an old church, to establish the Chapel FM arts centre, the only one in East Leeds. The station allows young people from all around East Leeds and interested adults to air broadcasts.

Swarcliffe

Swarcliffe, originally the Swarcliffe Estate, is a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is 4.9 miles (8 km) east of Leeds city centre, and within the LS14 and LS15 Leeds postcode area. The district falls within the Cross Gates and Whinmoor ward of the Leeds Metropolitan Council. In the 1950s, the Swarcliffe housing estate was developed, by the County Borough of Leeds, including semi detached council houses, three-storey blocks containing flats, and three brick-built, nine-storey blocks of flats. Two of these were demolished in the 1990s, and the third in 2007. A private finance initiative redevelopment of Swarcliffe began in 2006. From 1955 to 1992, the MP for Leeds East constituency, including Swarcliffe, was Denis Healey. In 2009, over 91% of the population in Swarcliffe were "hard-pressed".