White Rose Jobs Plan

I have welcomed the news that the planning application to bring an IMAX cinema to the White Rose Centre in Morley has been successful. The proposal – which was agreed at a Leeds City Councils Planning Committee – will bring a multi-screen cinema and additional restaurants to the popular shopping centre.

We supported this planning proposal as it will bring additional employment opportunities to Morley residents. We have worked well with the White Rose Centre before on earlier expansion proposals and they have signed up to legal agreements which offer training, apprenticeships and jobs to local residents. A similar agreement on this new planning application could mean hundreds of jobs coming the way of Morley residents.

Planning applications can contain a section 106 legal agreement where Developers agree to use local contractors to provide materials and services as well as guaranteeing that local residents will be offered the jobs generated by the development.

We gave our full support to this application and I am delighted it has been approved. We need to do all we can to offer jobs, apprenticeships and training to as many local residents as we can. This is an election pledge we have delivered on in the past and will continue to deliver on in the future!