Serving Leeds · LS1, LS2, LS3

Websites for Leeds businesses

Leeds keeps 1857 Kirkgate Market, 1878 Thornton's Arcade, and a record shop on every corner of LS1.

Two centuries of trade sit on top of each other in Leeds. The Victorian arcades — Thornton's from 1878, Queens from 1889, plus the Grand Arcade and the Corn Exchange — still hold independents like Crash Records on The Headrow and Colours May Vary inside the Corn Exchange. Kirkgate Market, opened in 1857, runs about 185 stalls of butchers, bakers and street food. Add the LeedsBID levy covering the city centre and a population pushing 800,000, and most days round the Headrow still feel like a market town that grew up.

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Working with Leeds

The £18m LeedsBID renewal in 2024 underwrites another five years of city centre work, and the West & North Yorkshire Chamber covers the wider patch. Round the arcades and Briggate the operator is still typically one or two people: Crash Records on The Headrow is 40 years old, Jumbo Records on Merrion Street started in 1971, Northern Guitars on Call Lane over 25 years. In the suburbs the pattern holds — Vinyl Whistle on Otley Road in Headingley is a record shop and café rolled into one, Woodrup Cycles on Kirkstall Road in Burley has been there for over 70 years, Colours May Vary keeps a design bookshop inside the Corn Exchange. Most of these are cafés, salons, trades and one-shop independents who'd rather spend a flat monthly fee than sign a contract.

Every Leeds site is hand-coded, mobile-first, and shipped on its own domain. There's nothing for you to maintain — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits are all in the £25/month plan. You'll deal directly with me from brief to launch, by email or WhatsApp, in plain English.

Local economy

Real Leeds small businesses, not stock photos

Every Leeds brief lands somewhere on the same map of shops, salons, trades and indie operators. Here are some of the real Leeds businesses I've researched while writing this page — the kind of place a clean £25/month site is built for.

Kirkgate Market is home to almost 200 independent businesses, according to Leeds City Council.

Some Leeds independents we'd happily sit next to

Crash Records
Independent record shop
35 The Headrow, LS1 6PU — Leeds music trade fixture for 40 years.
Jumbo Records
Independent record shop
Merrion Street, LS2 8NG — trading since 1971.
Kirkgate Market
Indoor market
Opened 1857, around 185 stalls of independent butchers, bakers and street-food traders.
Woodrup Cycles
Independent bike shop
345-347 Kirkstall Road, Burley, LS4 2HD — over 70 years on the same road.
Northern Guitars
Independent guitar shop & in-store gig venue
41 Call Lane, LS1 7BT — 25+ years, regular free gigs.
Colours May Vary
Independent design bookshop
Leeds Corn Exchange, LS1 7BR — design magazines, prints, homeware.

Streets we know in Leeds

The Headrow
Briggate
Call Lane
Merrion Street
Otley Road
Kirkstall Road
Vicar Lane

Neighbourhoods covered

Headingley
Hyde Park
Chapel Allerton
Burley
Holbeck
Horsforth

Trade bodies & BIDs in Leeds

Why these industries cluster here

Independent music retail
Crash Records (40 years on The Headrow), Jumbo Records (Merrion Street, since 1971) and Northern Guitars (Call Lane, 25+ years) anchor one of the densest indie record-shop scenes outside London.
Markets & indie food
Kirkgate Market, open since 1857, holds roughly 185 stalls of butchers, bakers and street-food traders — one of the largest indoor markets in Europe.
Arcade retail
Thornton's Arcade (1878), Queens Arcade (1889), the Grand Arcade and the Corn Exchange still cluster independent fashion, jewellery and book trades in walkable Victorian stock.
Creative & digital services
West Yorkshire's broader creative-agency cluster is well established; the studio's brief sits alongside it for trades and independents who don't need that overhead.

Kirkgate Market traders publicly opposed Leeds City Council's plans for the 185-stall market in December 2025 (https://yorkshirevoice.com/leeds-traders-speak-out-against-council-plans-for-kirkgate-market).

Where we work

Websites for Leeds and West Yorkshire

I'm based in London, build over email and WhatsApp, and ship the same £25/month plan to Leeds and every other town in West Yorkshire.

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Pricing

£25/month

One flat plan for every Leeds build — hosting, SSL, backups, updates and small content edits all included. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.

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How it works

From your first message to a live Leeds link in 1–2 weeks.

01You message me with a sentence on what you do.
02Quick call or text, you send your bundle.
03I build, you pay £25/month, you get the link.

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FAQs

Leeds web design — common questions

Do you build sites for traders at Kirkgate Market?

Yes. Most Kirkgate stalls only need a one-page site with their stall number, opening hours and a way to take orders or pre-orders. That's exactly the kind of thing the £25/month plan covers — clean, hand-coded, live in 1-2 weeks.

I'm in Headingley or Chapel Allerton, not the city centre — does that change the price?

No. LS1 to LS8 all get the same £25/month, the same 1-2 week turnaround, and the same flat fee. Whether you trade on Otley Road, Harrogate Road or The Headrow, the deliverable is identical.

Can you set up my Google Business Profile or run my SEO for me?

No — and that's deliberate. GBP claiming, link building and SEO ranking work are explicitly not part of the plan. What you do get is sensible page titles, descriptions and fast loads; you own the GBP yourself and can set it up in twenty minutes.

I run a small shop in the Corn Exchange — would you actually fit?

That's the brief I write the most of. One shop, one page, address, hours, a link to whatever you already use for orders, and a number that rings on the right phone. No upsell, no proposal deck.

Do you do SEO, blogs, or Google Business Profile?

No — and that's deliberate. The £25/month plan is for a clean, quick website on its own domain, with the basic on-page SEO sorted (sensible page titles, descriptions, fast loads). It is not a marketing package. If you want someone to actively manage your Google Business Profile, run a blog, or chase rankings, this isn't the right service — I'd rather say so upfront.

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