of the Elmet constituency. Colin Burgon served as the Member of Parliament for the area for 13 years having defeated the long-serving Conservative MP, Spencer Batiste, in 1997. It now sits within the Leeds East constituency, which includes Cross Gates, Whinmoor, Seacroft, Gipton, Harehills, Killingbeck, Temple Newsam, Halton Moor, Halton, Whitkirk, Colton and Austhorpe. The current MP is Labour's Richard Burgon. Whinmoor was also the eastern terminus for First Leeds’ “overground” St. James’ Line: 16, 16a and 56 running to Whinmoor bus terminus. Unilever Leeds is on Coal Road joined with the larger Seacroft Industrial Estate going from the Ramshead and Monskwood areas of Seacroft to the Naburn area of Whinmoor, with the B6902 (formerly the A6120 Ring Road) running through the middle. Leeds City Council purchased Whinmoor from the Tadcaster Rural District Council to build homes as an extension of the Seacroft housing development. In the early 1960s the council had planned to build 5,000 dwellings, a small shopping centre and other amenities with a pedestrian link to Seacroft. New homes have been built off of the A64 York Road, near the now closed Old Red Lion, by Strata proving 2-5 bedroomed affordable housing for Leeds’ growing housing demand. As well as a new houses built on the old Unilever car park, adjacent to the Seacroft Industrial Estate, between the B6902 and Coal Road built by Redrow. The new construction of the East Leeds Orbital Road and road improvements to the old Ring Road (B902) will provide more change in the coming years, bringing an additional 52,000 new homes across East Leeds, and up to 18,000 new homes in Whinmoor alone as a part of the Whinmoor Fields area (Northern Quadrant of the East Leeds Extension). References Sources External links Population by NOMIS The Ancient Parish of Barwick in Elmet at GENUKI: Whinmoor was in this parish Demolition of Flat Whinmoor, East Leeds 2001 video - YouTube Places in Leeds