Queens Hall was a concert and exhibition venue in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was originally a tram and then a bus depot and had latterly became a venue hosting events such as exhibitions such as the Ideal Home Exhibition and the 1981, 1982, 1988 and 1989 Great British Beer Festivals, flea markets, travelling fairs and concerts. Popular venue amongst students and townspeople of Leeds. Motörhead complained about the acoustics, and it was absolutely freezing in winter, with ice forming on the retained tramlines.The Queens Hall was demolished in 1989 and the site is now mostly used as a surface level car park with redevelopment taking place on part of the site for a multi storey car park with ground floor restaurant and an office building for BT. Proposals for the redevelopment of the rest of the former Queens Hall site have been ongoing since the 1990s with failed proposals including those from 1995 for an office building designed by Norman Foster for Royal London Insurance and a latter proposal in 2004 for two skyscrapers to be named Criterion Place designed by Ian Simpson Architects to be developed by Simons Estates. Neither of these proposals went to fruition but there are plans to complete the redevelopment of the former Queens Hall site in the near future. The Leeds Arena due for opening in 2013 will become the new main concert venue in Leeds.