What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Plans for new Council housing at Throstle Recreation Ground and Middleton Skills Centre have moved forward with two contracts to help bring the scheme forward for planning permission. A feasibility scheme conducted by Wates has indicated that a scheme consisting of 60 Extra Care units for older and vulnerable tenants,
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. Please note that due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak Leeds City Council is not accepting written representations made by post. Please make any comments online and address them to
Today the government has launched a public health campaign that will not reach you. It won’t reach you because the government has not included independently owned community news publishers like South Leeds Life in its campaign. The All in, all together campaign is a welcome response from the government to
Callous thieves have stolen key parts and caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to minibuses owned by Middleton-based charity Health For All (HFA). The thefts and damage were discovered when HFA’s Transport Manager Norman Mann called in at a local LS11 compound to do a weekly vehicle engine run.
Facebook went a bit crackers yesterday after Michelle Deacon Robertshaw posted a photo of a large snake wrapped around a tree in Middleton Woods with the message “Took a walk in woods. Didn’t expect to see this 😁” Over 1,500 people commented on the status, but few scrolled down to
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. Please note that due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak Leeds City Council is not accepting written representations made by post. Please make any comments online and address them to
The Real Junk Food Project have continued in their mission to save food that is still fresh, but might be thrown away and making it available to people on low incomes. Having run a “shop” at the LS-TEN Skatepark in Hunslet, from today (Friday 10 April 2020), they have set
Leeds City Council are creating a temporary mortuary on an industrial estate in Stourton to cope with an expected increase in deaths due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Council have allocated £800,000 to creating the facility on the Waterside Industrial Park, off Skelton Grange Road in Stourton. A contract has
Leeds City Council has set up Facebook Groups to share very local information about the Coronavirus outbreak in each of the 33 wards in the city. The three groups covering inner South Leeds are: Beeston & Holbeck (includes Beeston from Cross Flatts Park up to the Co-op, Cottingley and Holbeck)
Schools in South Leeds have been doing their bit to support the NHS during the current Coronavirus outbreak, making and donating Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Design & Technology staff at both Cockburn School in Beeston and Cockburn John Charles Academy in Belle Isle have made 110 face shields (see main