Year: 2016

South Leeds Roundup: Wellies, wills and a dream wedding

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in Hunslet where the Assisted Living Leeds centre near the Royal Armouries was hit by the Boxing Day floods. The service is still recovering and you can

BITMO’s GATE supports Dementia UK’s Time for a Cuppa campaign

Belle Isle TMO Belle Isle TMO will be supporting Dementia UK‘s ‘Time for a Cuppa’ campaign. They’re asking that from the 1-8 March this year, you to make Time for a Cuppa and raise some dough to help them to help families who are facing dementia through their fantastic Admiral

The Child Friendly Leeds Awards – 2016

On Thursday 28 January 2016 I went to the Child Friendly Leeds Awards 2016. [slideshow_deploy id=’45494′] The venue was the magnificent City Varieties; it was the first time I had ever been there. We were told many talented and famous people had performed there, even Charlie Chaplin. I was so

New homes approved for Belle Isle

Leeds Federated Housing have been granted permission to build 27 new affordable homes on land next to Winrose Drive and Newhall Gate in Belle Isle. The planning application was considered by the South & West Plans Panel on Thursday (18 February 2016) because the housing association is not able to

Pocket Parks for Hunslet Carr and Cardinals

Two communities in South Leeds will benefit from a share of a £1.5m government fund to create more urban ‘pocket parks’. The Sandon Mount Pocket Park will be a brand new park for the Woodhouse Hill community in Hunslet Carr. This community is made up of dense housing in close