What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
An ECO partnership is turning up the heat on a new scheme aimed at keeping residents’ energy bills down. Wrap up Leeds ECO, which was launched last summer, is a partnership between Leeds City Council, Keepmoat, SSE and Wilmott Dixon. Together, they are offering free boilers, cavity wall and
The much needed refurbishment of a popular community space for young people is to go ahead. Councillor Angela Gabriel and colleagues on the Inner South Area Committee have provided £6,200 towards the refurbishment of the Urban Bar on Malvern Road in Beeston. Urban Bar, run by local youth charity
The South Leeds Life Group is meeting this Wednesday (26 February 2014) and will be discussing whether to produce a pilot newspaper in June. Producing a newspaper is time-consuming and not cheap so there are a lot of issues to consider. Anyone who is interested in South Leeds Life’s
So well done Lizzie Yarnold. Five years of hard work paid off with a gold medal at the winter Olympics this week. I was struck by her interview after the event and her back story. She said she was inspired by Denise Lewis. We all need our sporting heroes,
A packed public meeting at The Tetley art gallery on Tuesday (18 February 2014) heard about plans for a Hunslet ‘Stray’. Harrogate and York have Strays – areas of green space in the city centre and David Lumb from Leeds Sustainable Development Group (LSDG) admitted they had chosen a
Get into Painting & Decorating The Prince’s Trust is now recruiting for its Get into Painting & Decorating programme run in partnership with Leeds College of Building, in Leeds. Get into Painting & Decorating aims to give young people a mixture of practical training and qualifications, that will allow
7:40am, outside Leeds Medical Assessment Centre. Transcript: TS: I decided just before Christmas that I wanted to set up a demonstration against ATOS in Leeds so I put the idea out there on Facebook. A colleague of mine, Paul Kelly says, “Look, we’ve got something like 30,000 people saying
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We start this week with a question posed on The Leeds Guardian: Is it time for Dewsbury Road to have a facelift? The question was raised by reader Mr Singh, who has spotted
The Beeston Hill and Holbeck housing regeneration project took another step forward this week with work starting on the first of 275 new build homes. Sc4l are developing a mix of 47 one and two bedroom properties across the three sites at Folly Lane, Coupland Place and Malvern Road
Hunslet Hawks have chosen the Motor Neuron Disease charity SITraN to support this season. On Valentine’s Day (14 February 2014) head coach Barry Eaton, ex-players and members of the community team visited their chosen charity, the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) to find out more about the research