Aire Park is a planned new public open space in Hunslet, south of the city centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Being developed by the international real estate organisation Vastint, it will mostly occupy the abandoned brownfield site of the former Tetley's Brewery. It is named after the River Aire, which flows nearby. As well as parkland, the development includes four new mixed-use and four new residential buildings, and the demolition of a warehouse and a five-storey office building which was occupied by Carlsberg. It will retain the Art Deco former brewery headquarters turned contemporary art gallery The Tetley, and Salem Chapel. History Hunslet is now an inner-city area of Leeds immediately south of Leeds railway station, bounded on the north and east by the River Aire. It was a rural village until rapid growth during the 19th century as a result of the Industrial Revolution. The area between Meadow Lane and Crown Point Road became the brewery of Joshua Tetley and Son in 1822, which was replaced by the construction of a new brewery designed by George Corson began in 1852. By 1860 Tetley was the largest brewery in the North of England, and in 1931, the Art Deco Tetley headquarters building was erected. Tetley's was fully taken over by Carlsberg in 1998, which had owned 50% since 1993, who announced the brewery's closure in 2008, with the final brew taking place in 2011 and lager production transferring to Northampton. After demolition of most of the brewery buildings except the office blocks, the brewery site has remained under-utilised. It is partly vacant, partly in temporary use as surface car parking and greenspace, and since 2013 has been home to a contemporary art gallery and art hub in the redeveloped 1930s headquarters building. The site was bought by Vastint, a commercial real estate company related to IKEA which specialises in large-scale mixed-use schemes. An outline planning application submitted by Vastint was approved in principle by Leeds City Council's City Plans Panel in October 2017, which provided for a phased development of up to 850 residential units, business and hotel uses, and a city park with a minimum of of public realm. After initially being known as the "city park" pending choice of a permanent name, Vastint announced in September 2019 that the green space will be called Aire Park. The reserved matters application will be considered by Plans Panel on