Featured on Celebs Go Dating and offering your very own Love Island experience, The Secret Garden glamping is an Instagram paradise made for sharing online.
Promising five-star luxury, the latest pod from The Secret Garden is a unique glamping experience set in a beautiful 2.5 acre woodland.
Jump in the hot tub and unwind from the day gone bye whilst the log burner provides the perfect backdrop to cosy evenings lounging on seats and watching the stars underneath the night sky.
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Watch Netflix nestled between the trees or help yourself to chilled drinks aplenty from the outdoor bar area where amenities like an ice machine and huge cooking area will keep foodies entertained all night long.
Complete with a bright pink rope swing and hammock, this is glamping like you've never seen it before.
Inside your private tent, the luxe-cosy atmosphere extends through to the bedroom. Velvet pastel sofas, floral headboards and plants decorating everywhere from the ceiling to the floor all proudly parade the pink colour scheme- and that's before you've seen the centre piece of the bed itself.
Featuring decadent marble flooring with underfloor heating to keep toes toasty and walls covered in bright flowers spanning to even the bathroom: this staycation really does look like its been taken straight from a reality TV set.
Named The Glade, this luxury glamping tent sits alongside award-winning staycation from The Secret Garden, where all tents are unique and each just as Instagrammable.
Having been featured on BBC1, Channel 4, E4 and Channel 5 on respective TV shows Hot Tub Brits, Four in a Bed and Celebs Go Dating, the only TV show left yet to make an appearance is a UK version of Love Island- but if the organisers do ever choose to make a staycation, we can bet this will be a firm contender.
Located in Lancashire, The Secret Garden staycations are all under 90 minutes from Leeds city centre, making them the ideal weekend getaway for any northerner looking to spend their out of office hours in a location for their social media.
For more information, including how to bag yourself a night at The Glade, visit The Secret Garden website.
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Property
Inside the £1.75m Horsforth farmhouse complete with its very own cottage and five acres of land
Go behind the doors of this truly beautiful house on the market in the leafy suburb of Horsforth.
Now this one really is a thing of beauty.
Located on Scotland Lane in Horsforth, The Rookery is an absolutely stunning former Georgian farmhouse dating all the way back to the 19th century.
It occupies a whopping 5,000 sq ft as well as its very own cottage amongst 5.5 acres of land, as well as five double bedrooms and three bathrooms.
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And guess what? It's only on the market for a mere guide price of £1.75 million. Pocket change.
In the main house you're welcomed with a grand entrance hall and staircase leading through to a series of reception rooms on the ground floor, how posh. Here you'll also find a wet room and an orangery which attaches to the kitchen, even more posh.
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Upstairs there's five double bedrooms, three bathrooms and a study - that should be plenty room for us we think.
But the exterior is where it gets really interesting as here you'll find five acres of beautifully maintained gardens featuring an orchard, kitchen garden and a tennis court.
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There's also 'stabling suited to equine use, adding further appeal for those with equestrian interests'... we couldn't have put it better ourselves.
Beyond that The Rookery features it's very own detached two-bedroom cottage as well as a garage with mezzanine accommodation.
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The entire property looks like something out of a fairytale, so if you're looking to live your best 19th century Bridgerton-esque life, then dig deep and get hold of that £1.75 million.
But if you do buy it, can we please live in the cottage?
Leeds city centre set for hundreds of new flats after council agrees sale of ‘prime’ development site
Clementine Hall
It looks like even more new flats could be popping up in Leeds city centre.
The land in question is located near Leeds' Aire Park development, next to The Adelphi Pub in a prime location smack bang in the city centre.
It's looking like over 240 flats could be built on the site after the council has agreed to sell the coveted plot of land to a housing developer.
The current land that is surrounded by heritage assets has been sold by Leeds City Council to property developer Glenbrook.
A planning application from Glenbrook proposed mostly 246 one and two bedroom apartments in a whopping 24 storey development.
Around 20% of the homes would be classified as affordable housing, being rented out at 80% of the current private market rate.
The application will be discussed when the council's City Plans Panel meets next Thursday 14 May.
A council planning officer’s report said: “The emerging proposals present a significant opportunity to regenerate a prominent vacant brownfield site within the city centre.
“The development would deliver a substantial number of new homes, alongside the provision of some employment opportunities.”
A council decision report when selling the plot back in 2022 said: “It is surrounded by heritage assets in an area undergoing rapid regeneration and is widely considered to be a prime plot capable of supporting a high quality residential development.”
Well then Leeds, what do you make of these plans then?
Sophie Smith -
5th January 2023 
