Eastern Promise on Easel 2005

For the winter 2005 broadcast, ELFM ran a series of five one-hour programmes entitled Eastern Promise. The programmes were looking at bold attempts to regenerate whole swathes of East and South East Leeds under the EASEL initiative.

EASEL is a 15-year programme of regeneration for East and South East Leeds; a partnership between the Council, Housing ALMOs and the private sector.

Eastern Promise set out to find out more: What was the vision? How did local people feel about it? What would success mean and what difficulties might get thrown up…

You can listen to some clips of the best bits from the series below (titles by the side of the clips give you an idea of the content)

 

 What's it like round here: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 What is EASEL: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Successes already - look at Halton Moor...: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Grand visions can cause local problems: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download