What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Hop City, the long-running beer festival from award-winning Holbeck-based brewery Northern Monk, returns this month for its ninth year, taking place over three sessions across Friday and Saturday 15-16 May 2026. Bringing over 35 of the best independent breweries from the UK, Europe and North America together under the roof
In yesterday’s writing ‘Sous le Pave les Plage’ I wrote about how the French postman Ferdinand Cheval turned work, and the public environment into a game. This game, which to many will have seemed either pointless or a sign of madness, resulted in an incredible artwork/folly in the ‘Palais Ideal’
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 Monday 4 May 2026. Click on the description to see the full application: Dormer window to front 52 Recreation
The city has become a graveyard. The gap-toothed grin of the high street distorts our sense of reality as generally worthless businesses open and close and the centre shifts eternally. There will come a time when the dust settles at the end of civilisation and nature starts to reclaim the cities in the absence of the human animal.
There was a great atmosphere at Friday morning’s Breakfast Club as Hunslet RLFC welcomed back former player Gurdeep Ryatt. The visit was organised by another former player Dr Ikram Butt. Ikram commented: “Gurdi made history during the 1970s as the first British Asian rugby league player in the professional game
As widely predicted, the old two party election battles were truly out of the window in South Leeds as smaller parties won all three seats. In Hunslet & Riverside ward Cllr Ed Carlisle held on to his seat for the Green Party by a considerable margin of 1,780 votes over
More than 240 flats could be built after the council agreed to sell a city centre plot of land to a housing developer. Land at Meadow Lane, near the city’s Aire Park development and the Adelphi pub, could be redeveloped after early-stage plans were drawn up. Leeds City Council chose
Here’s a roundup of some the main events taking place over the coming week in South Leeds. We start this week in Beeston where Leeds Dads will be holding another free Soft Play session, 10am-12pm on Saturday morning at Little Angels behind the Tommy Wass pub, LS11 7HL. This for
A community centre providing vital services for a south Leeds community is to be given protected status by the council. Cottingley Community Centre will be added to the city’s list of assets of community value (ACVs). The centre, home to a a GP surgery and free food service, is attended
Holbeck’s theatre company Slung Low warmly invites you to join them for Flying High: Creating Flags of Awe & Wonder, a very special flag-making project for our times, which visually and colourfully captures and celebrates all that is AWE-some and WONDER-full about our Holbeck and South Leeds communities! We are