What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
On Monday 24 September the ‘South Leeds Together’ programme will be holding its launch event at John Charles Centre for Sport. Organisations that are interested in learning more about this European Structural and Investment Fund scheme are invited to come along and learn about how they might access funding for
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 13 August 2018: Change of use of unit from storage/distribution (B8) to general industrial (B2) use 1 New Princess
York City Knights 48-6 Hunslet RLFC Hunslet RLFC suffered a tough afternoon at Bootham Crescent on Sunday (19 August 2018) as an in-form York City Knights brushed past the South Leeds side to go top of the league. It was always going to be a tough ask for the Parksiders
This coming weekend sees ‘Sounds Like A Storm’ – a young indie band, with their roots very firmly in south Leeds – going up a gear, performing to thousands at the major Leeds and Reading Festival. South Leeds Life caught up with them at Old Chapel Studios in Holbeck, to
Streets in Upper Beeston were yesterday afternoon (Saturday 18 August) the scene of havoc and destruction, as a pick-up truck careered dangerously through residential streets, trashing cars as it went. The truck first appeared on Cross Flatts Drive, coming off Beeston Road at an estimated 40-50 mph, at around 5.45pm.
The Stop the Stourton Park and Ride campaign continues – and we’re holding a public meeting this coming Thursday (23 August 2018; details below) for other residents to come and find out more, and to get involved. We wanted to work with the councillors (from both Hunslet and Riverside, and
This summer has seen the launch of the new regular Middleton Community Meetings – and organisers are calling for residents to come forward to get involved, and to help shape the work of the group going forward. The next meeting will be on Monday 3 September, at 7pm, at the
The annual South Leeds Community Camp event is back again, overnight on Saturday 15 to Sunday 16 September in Middleton Park – and is open for bookings! This free family event each year (it’s now in its fifth year) sees dozens of local people from across the south Leeds communities
A new novel – called ‘Smithy Is’ – is hitting the shelves in bookshops across the country, depicting the gritty reality of growing up in south Leeds in the 1960s. This “insightful and hard hitting” book follows the path of teenage Smithy as he grows into adulthood, experiencing and witnessing
Evie Cooke, from just over the border in Tingley, has been in touch about her bid to be the next Leeds Children’s Mayor. Children in Year 5 – from 50 schools all over the city – submitted low- or no-cost ideas for Leeds City Council, to benefit the children of