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Okay so you are moving or thinking of moving to Leeds? Well think no more just do and you will join almost three million other people who enjoy Leeds life. And with Medics on the Move to help you and our dedicated website www.movingtoleeds.co.uk we will ensure the process is simple and quick and that Leeds life starts as soon as poss!
Leeds is central – easy for access and travel to anywhere in the UK – better placed than anywhere. Leeds Uni is the most sought after location. Leeds has access, location, sport, culture, work, leisure, arts, food, bars and cafes, retail, entertainment, retail – did we mention it? Nightlife, great buildings to live in, great buildings to work in, easy travel, retail (again) but theres so much it needs mentioning at least three times…just so much really.
Don’t take our word for it though, we are selling relocation and we live here so we are bound to be biased. Here is what some fellow Leos say…

Activity Leeds


Leeds is a great city for keeping active, no matter what your sport of choice. As with any major city, there are plenty of gyms but there are also lots of options for the more adventurous
• Leeds Wall is a popular indoor centre
• Xscape, in nearby Castleford, is a great spot for some fun climbing as well as excellent indoor skiing and snowboarding
• Football fans will be pleased to hear there are a number of five-a-side football centres
• Good quality golf courses such as the 1929 Ryder Cup venue Moortown Golf Club!

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Children's Leeds


• The Thackray Museum with their range of giant interactive models designed to show those curious minds how our bodies work
• Roundhay Park is the largest, but there are plenty more across the city with facilities such as play areas and skateboarding ramps
• Meanwood Valley Urban Farm offers the chance to meet sheep, pigs, donkeys and fluffy newly hatched chicks
• Tropical World, ticks a lot of boxes as far as stimulation-starved children are concerned. Here they can take in all sorts of unusual and exotic wildlife, from birds to lizards to butterflies, and all within a self-contained tropical atmosphere for extra authenticity
• Canal Gardens are a great spot to visit
• Harewood House - an adventure playground, a fascinating Victorian museum, and a bird garden replete with penguins, as well as Yorkshire’s very own planetarium
• The Temple Newsam estate features vast expanses of grass to run around in and a rare breeds farm to visit, whilst there’s picnic plots a-plenty
• Kirkstall Abbey and a diary of workshops at the Abbey House Museum.
• There’s even a whole museum especially for children — the hands-on Eureka! Centre, in nearby Halifax

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Culinary Leeds


Radisson is one of many international names to have a base in the city, but another strength is its independent culture. There are many restaurants, bars, pubs and cafes set up by hard-working innovators whose efforts ensure that diners have plenty of choice.
Best known of these is Anthony’s Restaurant, a previous winner of ‘Best Restaurant In The Country’ in The Observer Food Awards.
If you want tradition, you’ve got it — whether that’s roast beef and Yorkshire pud in a country pub or good old fish and chips from one of the city’s fantastic fish and chip shops. Bryan’s in Headingley, serves everything from flaky battered haddock and chips to exquisite lobster.
Clarence Dock has brought a fantastic range of new restaurants to the city, including @Larocca and The Bird.
Indian food at legendary places like Aagrah and the large Mediterranean community gives rise to a wealth of continental delis and great Italian restaurants like Casa Mia, Salvo’s and Bibis. For fantastic West Indian dishes The Dutch Pot on Chapeltown Road. Sushi and noodles are available city wide in eateries like Fuji Hiro, Sisushi and Tampopo

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Learning Leeds


Leeds is recognised internationally as a leading centre for learning, with a total student population of over 200,000
• Voted 'Best university destination in the UK' by The Independent, our city has two universities of international renown – the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University, with a combined total of 124,000 full and part-time students
• The city has ten colleges of higher and further education, including Leeds College of Art and Design, Leeds College of Music and Notre Dame Sixth Form College, with a combined total of 78,000 students

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Leeds by night


Top music venues, sophisticated bars, and cool clubs. The rebirth of Leeds as a 24 hour city started in the early 90s when Dave Beer launched his groundbreaking house night Back2Basics which, 15 years later, is still running as Basics.
Leeds became known for its defined clubbing culture, and groundbreaking avant garde nights such as Vague, Up Yer Ronson and The Orbit sprang up
Current nightlife climate boasts nationally acclaimed nights such as Federation, Dirty Disco, SubDub, Fresh Jive and New Bohemia.

Known as a goth music mecca back in the 80s, Leeds has more recently come under the national media’s musical radar thanks to artists like Kaiser Chiefs and Corinne Bailey Rae. The Cribs, The Pigeon Detectives and The Sunshine Underground, have all been championed by industry insiders at the NME, Radio 1 and Xfm.

The Elbow Room play pool and by night it hosts some of the best breakbeat, funk, soul and hip hop nights in the city including Sugarbeat with resident DJs Utah Saints

Mojo is famous for its cocktails and rock and roll ethic. Preferred haunt of Irvine Welsh, there is also now a Mojo in Manchester and even one in Barbados!

The HiFi Club is one of the city’s most respected clubs, best known for its funk and soul nights and legendary Sweet Revival urban night.

The Mint Club is celebrating its tenth birthday this year and has hosted DJs from Richie Hawtin to Fatboy Slim

Oracle is a plush riverside bar with an upstairs champagne lounge, making it a favourite amongst the Leeds glitterati

Mission is one of Leeds’ premier clubs, having recently had a million pound revamp, and is home to acclaimed nights like Kissdafunk and is a key part of the city's gay scene, along with Bar Fibre

The Wardrobe is famous for its live jazz nights, which often attract both national and international jazz stars to Leeds and has just reopened its downstairs club

Leeds University Union continues to attract top DJs and bands such as Dizzee Rascal, Hot Chip and Maceo Parker

The Faversham not only has its own record label Bad Sneakers, but is also famed for its cool indie status, supporting new local bands and hosting big name acts like Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Maxïmo Park


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Leeds by numbers


• Economy £13.6 billion projected to grow by a third in the next 10 years.
• £3.2bn of investment in large property schemes completed in the last decade
• £7.2 billion of schemes in progress or proposed.
• Bridgewater Place development was recently completed and now rises 32 storeys above the city.
• The 54 and 32 floor towers of Lumière, will be the tallest residential development in western Europe.
• 2.8 million residents
• A labour force of over 1.45 million
• Output of over £44 billion
• 100,000 businesses
• Six universities
• 110,000 commuters per day
• 2 of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe
• 15k people employed by the NHS
• Second legal centre outside London, with 180 firms employing over 8k
• Biggest centre for printing, packaging and publishing outside London 14k employees
• 3.5 million sq ft of retail
• five miles of shopping streets
• One of the country’s largest pedestrian shopping areas
• Third largest manufacturing centre, with 1,941 firms employing 39k
• 50% of UK manufacturing within a two-hour drive of Leeds
• 3,000 hotel rooms with in excess of 6,500 beds
• Hotel space set to rise to 4,749 rooms
• Holbeck Urban Village nnovative urban regeneration project, just minutes from the city will attract more than £800 million in investment and thousands of jobs.
• Eastgate retail-led development scheduled for completion in 2014, will create 1.45 million sq ft of prime retail, restaurant and leisure space and 600 homes
• West End mixed use development in excess of £1 billion of investment has been committed by six different developers

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Leisure Leeds


A vibrant music scene plus a rich and successful artistic vein running through the city’s history.
• Sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth were born nearby and studied at the Leeds School of Art
• Damien Hirst, moved to Leeds as a child and studied at the Leeds College of Art and Design
• Peter O’Toole — eight-time Oscar nominee and star of Lawrence of Arabia — grew up in Leeds
• Playwright Alan Bennett, Julian Barratt of ‘The Mighty Boosh’, and actor John Simm as well as author director Kay Mellor are all from Leeds
• The League of Gentlemen met whilst studying at the University of Leeds
• Sam Riley recently made his name playing Ian Curtis in the Joy Divison biopic Control, gaining a BAFTA nomination in the process
• The biggest producing theatre outside of London and Stratford, the West Yorkshire Playhouse was first to put on the Olivier Award-winning The 39 Steps and the original Bad Girls: The Musical, now a hit in the West End
• Christmas shows - Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe have all been sellouts
• Leeds Grand has the charm of an old-fashioned theatre
• York Theatre Royal and the Bradford Alhambra are a half hour away
• Leeds City Art Gallery has recently undergone a £1.5m refurbishment, and contains works by Turner, Moore, Hepworth and Stanley Spencer as well as pieces from the likes of David Shrigley
• The Times called it the best collection of 20th century British art outside London
• Leeds Met Gallery shows work by exciting new artists in their premises by the university
• Leeds International Concert Season is the largest local authority music progamme in the UK -more than 200 concerts each year
• Home to internationally-renowned Opera North
• Northern Ballet Theatre also operates out of the city
• The Leeds College of Music has a concert season that attracts the likes of Jamie Cullum and Mercury nominees Polar Bear
• Phoenix Dance Theatre is now recognized as one of Britain’s leading contemporary dance companies
• Over 8,000 spectacular exhibits in stunning surroundings from 3,000 years of history make this world-famous collection of arms and armour a must-see attraction. Breathtaking displays, costumed demonstrations, dramatic interpretations, live action events, entertaining films, interactive technology and thrilling exhibitions can all be experienced at the Royal Armouries Museum

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Liking Leeds – movers to the city have their say


“Leeds is a thriving city for business with a tremendous quality of life. It attracts talented people and leading companies. CEOs and businesses could not wish for a better platform for growth regionally, nationally and internationally.”
Jeff Morris, Partner, Odgers Ray and Berndtson
Leeds is the UK’s fastest growing city with the second largest employment total outside London, an estimated 457,400 people. The ability to adapt and develop new markets has made it a national hub for commerce and industry and one of the biggest city success stories in the UK.
“I love Leeds more than anything because the people are genuine”

“It’s close to the Dales and the countryside, which is really gorgeous”

“It’s very cosmopolitan with a huge fashion direction”

“You rarely hear anyone in Leeds say ‘we can’t do that’”

“It’s a small, friendly scene with lots of bars, lots of clubs and lots of shops”

Research reveals the resoundingly positive feeling people have for the city. People who have experienced Leeds – whether it was for hours, days or years – invariably love the place, and in turn are its natural ambassadors. All who experience Leeds – its diversity, lifestyle, warmth, people and quality of life, share the same belief: if you spend time in the city, you'll grow to love it.

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Shopping Leeds


It is no surprise that in a city with the economic power of Leeds, there is a dazzling array of places such as the cathedral of fashion that is the Victoria Quarter to the designer stores of The Light; the independent boutiques of the arcades and the newly renovated Grade 1 listed Corn Exchange, the newest shopping destination, Clarence Dock, has brought new retail concepts to the city of Leeds such as G-Star, Replay and Rock Couture.

Leeds boasts internationally renowned stores, many of which are flagship premises for London-based companies. A significant number of these are found under the stained glass roof of the Victoria Quarter.

The White Rose Centre offers a convenient out-of-town shopping option, with many major brands under one roof, and ample space for parking.

The Trinity Leeds development is set to provide one million square feet of retail space by integrating and renovating the area between Briggate and Park Row.

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Sporting Leeds


With some of the country’s best-supported football, cricket and rugby sides, and plenty of opportunities to get involved yourself, sport in Leeds is as healthy as ever


The city’s celebrated rugby league side, Leeds Rhinos, is one of the sport’s real heavyweights, and was the best-supported rugby side of either code in the UK in 2007, so it's a good job that Headingley Carnegie Stadium can house 22,250 spectators. 2007 also saw them become Super League champions, something that could only be topped by winning the Carnegie World Club Challenge — which they did in early 2008. Rhinos are well known for their exciting style of play and, when the RFL announced the 2007 dream team, there were more Rhinos players than any other club.

Rugby union fans can enjoy some top-quality entertainment, too, as Leeds Carnegie — known until recently as Leeds Tykes — gained promotion back to the Guinness Premiership in 2007.

Yorkshire County Cricket Club are also based Headingley Carnegie Stadium and remain one of the biggest sides in the game. After a difficult period, the side was promoted in 2005 and survived relegation in 2006 before former England bowler and ballroom dancing legend Darren Gough returned to captain the side in 2007, taking them to within a couple of games of winning the County Championship. England also frequently play international test matches at Headingley, and it remains one of the country’s top cricketing venues.

In terms of football, Leeds United have struggled to live up to expectations in recent years, but they’re currently rebuilding from their position in League One. The fans remain in full support and the expectation is that the club will return to former glories in the coming years.

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So now you want to move...


Well this is where Medics on the Move comes in. By combining our 27 nationwide offices different expertise along with over 100 years property experience and almost fifty years knowledge of Leeds we put all of this engine room of power into action to work for you finding you what you want, what you need and what you will love.
Just look around the website and see the sort of properties we have had on our books and look at how we work and then contact us for a chat about your requirements and we will have you moving in no time.

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