are significant areas of industrial premises. Indicators for health, economic activity and community safety in this area are broadly consistent with averages for the City of Leeds as a whole. Beeston Hill area Beeston Hill is largely made up of areas of older Victoria terraces and newer social housing, which comprises around a third of the housing stock in the area. In April 2008, a £93 million PFI scheme to build 700 private and housing association dwellings and regenerate some existing stock was announced. As a particularly deprived area, Beeston Hill along with Holbeck was the beneficiary of Objective 2 European funding. Beeston Hill has a relatively high level of empty housing as well as a number of significant unoccupied commercial premises. Beeston Hill has a significant ethnic minority population, with around 40% of the population from BME Communities. The area suffers from a high level of deprivation, with indicators for health, economic activity and community safety substantially worse than for the City of Leeds as a whole. Beeston - Elland Road and Millshaw Area The west of Beeston around Elland Road has significant amounts of industrial estates, with a substantial amount of mainly semi-detached and terraced housing to the western edge of the Parkside and Cross Flatts area. This also forms much of the Old Village side of Beeston, as can be seen in many of the houses along Town Street/Milshaw. Transport Beeston has a mainline railway line running along its western edge along which all services between Leeds and London King's Cross and London St Pancras run. However, there are no stations along it as Beeston station closed to passengers in 1953. Beeston is served by a number of bus services along Dewsbury Road, Elland Road and Town Street. A general description of these services the following. Firstly, a Park and Ride to Leeds has been built opposite Elland Road Police Station operated by First. First services 2, 12 and 75 link much of Beeston with Middleton, Belle Isle and Hunslet, Arriva buses link the Dewsbury Road/White Rose side of Beeston with Dewsbury, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Heckmondwike and other locations, and the nearby town of Morley has strong bus links to Beeston by way of the following. Service 65 links much of Beeston with Morley and Gildersome, services 51 and 52 link areas close to Elland Road with Morley, and Arriva linking the Dewsbury Road/White Rose side of Beeston