Setback for Leeds angling school plan

PIC: Jonathan GawthorpePIC: Jonathan Gawthorpe
PIC: Jonathan Gawthorpe
A plan to turn a dam in Leeds into an angling academy will live to fight another day after a council panel deferred its final decision.

As previously reported in the YEP, businessman and lifelong fishing fan Adrian Addy wants to redevelop the Billing Dam site in Rawdon and build a visitor centre and house next to the water.

He is hoping that local youngsters as well as keen anglers will use the new facility, which would be the first of its kind in