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.