Fashion giant scraps £50m plans to open Leeds facility
Burberry has scrapped plans to open a trench coat factory in Leeds’ South Bank.
The fashion giant had planned to refurbish and reopen the historic grade I-listed former flax mill Temple Works, investing £50m in the development which would relocate existing facilities.
It delivers a blow to Leeds and the “Northern Powerhouse". The development would have created 200 jobs in the city.
Plans for the site were first revealed in 2015, with a completion date set for 2019. The plans have now lapsed and Burberry has said it is n... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
