“University bosses have taken legal action against a group of activists who are occupying a former research facility in Headingley.
Members of protest group Leeds Community Project have occupied the non-residential areas of 6 Grosvenor Mount in a bid to halt its sale to a developer and open it up for the local community.
The University of Leeds was granted planning permission in 2013 to build seven new houses and renovate a current house on the land – a former botantic gardens and research facility with outbuildings, glasshouses and gardens.
But Leeds Community Project activists believe the site holds “many future possibilities” for food growing, nature, wildlife and as a space for educational and social events…”