Day: 2 July 2012

Public meeting discusses new south Leeds primary school

Plans for a new primary school on the site of the closed |South Leeds Sports Centre at the bottom of Beeston Road will be discussed at a public meeting next Thursday. The meeting, organised by the council, will be held at Hamara Healthy Living Centre in Tempest Road, Beeston on

‘Beeston Hill PFI faces further delays’: report

The Beeston Hill and Holbeck PFI regeneration scheme seems to have encountered further delays, according to a report today. The ever-reliable Leeds Citizen blog reports today: The timetable for Leeds’ troubled Private Finance Initiative (PFI) housing project has slipped further with an unexplained three-month delay in getting the £180m contract signed

New lease of life for Clarence Dock and city centre south?

It’s been a source of debate for some time. A kind of ‘ghost town’ which is neither part of the city centre or the rest of South Leeds – a white elephant that’s so far failed to live up to expectations. But a new strategy for the ‘Brigadoon’ that is Clarence Dock in Hunslet is