Month: March 2015

Hilary Benn MP: Where should new houses be built?

It’s a pretty straightforward question, but the answer is sometimes anything but. Leeds City Council has just completed its consultation to identify sites around the city but, perhaps understandably, not everyone is happy. And yet, if we don’t provide homes for our children and grandchildren, neighbours and friends and work

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Good News Story!! For St Luke’s Church Beeston

Leeds City Council Inner South Community Committee Good News Story!! Residents unite for an even better neighbourhood!! St Luke’ s Church has provided the space for the residents of surrounding areas to meet and discuss matters of interest from housing, planning, crime and community safety, highways cleansing and environmental protection.

Private landlords in Holbeck meet to improve the area

Private landlords who manage houses in the Holbeck area are being invited to the area’s first landlords forum to find out how they can work together to improve their community. The first forum will take place later today, Wednesday 4 March 2015 between 6pm and 7:30pm at St Matthew’s Community

Marching on Together comes to South Leeds

Marching on Together is a play written by Leeds based Adam Hughes. Hot on the heels of its debut performance in London at the Old Red Lion, BackHere Productions have come straight to Leeds to deliver this piece of hard hitting theatre. Funded by the Arts Council and Leeds Inspired,

Hedge-Laying Revival at Skelton Grange

Funding from  the CEMEX Community Fund has been giving the enthusiastic volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre a chance to travel back in time and learn woodland management skills, including the ancient art of hedge laying… with some real “cutting ‘edge” tools. Every Friday in February and March, The Conservation