The controversial scheme in Holbeck, Leeds, was introduced by a Labour council to improve sex worker safety.
It is to end after the number of prostitutes and customers declined in the pandemic.
Since 2014 sex workers have been allowed to operate in a managed zone at night without arrests being made for loitering, soliciting or kerb-crawling.
Britain s first official red light district (pictured) in Holbeck, Leeds, is being scrapped after seven years. It was introduced by a Labour council to improve sex worker safety
Campaigners claimed the scheme, which cost around £200,000 a year, increased sex assaults and residents said the area was being blighted with incidents such as school pupils being propositioned and people having sex in gardens in daylight.
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Students behind lockdown snowball fight fined whopping £10,000 each for Covid breach
A video of a huge snowball fight in Leeds attended by hundreds of Covid rule-breakers sparked outrage on social media. The organisers have now been fined £10,000 each by police
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Two organisers of a mass snowball fight that saw hundreds of students gather in a park have been fined £10,000 each for breaching England s lockdown rules.
Crowds gathered in Hyde Park, Leeds for more than two hours following heavy snow on January 14, despite Covid-19 guidance asking Britons to stay at home in a bid to control the virus.
Under current Government regulations, a gathering of more than 30 people is illegal in England and carries a maximum fine of £10,000.
Two men, aged 20 and 23, were questioned yesterday and slapped with the heavy fines after being investigated by police probing the illicit gathering.
The 23-year-old had previously been fined for breaching restrictions at an address near the park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in November, West Yorkshire Police said.