This formal partnership of four statutory bodies replaced “Eye on the Aire” which was a wider partnership of waterside businesses and tenants, local interest groups such as the Ramblers Association, naturalists groups and environmental organisations such as BTCV and Groundwork with Yorkshire Water and the statutory bodies responsible for the river and canals in Leeds – Leeds City Council, British Waterways and Environment Agency. The partnership was instrumental producing the Leeds Waterfront Strategy – which was adopted as supplementary planning guidance in 2002 and revised in 2006.

http://www.leeds.gov.uk/page.aspx?pageidentifier=6ecc40b2-f45a-4775-b221-c335ab471ade

The Wyke Beck Way is also a legacy of Eye on the Aire and is an active partnership http://www.wykebeckway.org.uk

I get the feeling, although I could be wrong, that Aire Action Leeds are not joined into the “place-making” debate around Holbeck and other parts of the River Aire/Aire and Calder Navigation/Leeds and Liverpool Canal watersides. Maybe they should be one of the “dots”?