What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A row of Himalayan Birches has been planted on Cardinal Square today (Wednesday 3 February 2016) as the start of an initiative to green the estate. White Rose Residents Association won a competition against ten other bids from around West Yorkshire to secure a £10,000 grant for the trees. The
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 Beeston at the Brew Coffee Shop where they’ve installed a new counter to improve their take out offer. Don’t forget we are there every Thursday morning
It’s the UK’s largest Valentines Event, and it’s back in South Leeds for the Half Term holidays. The famous Valentines Fun Fair runs from Thursday 11 February until Sunday 21 February on the Elland Road Car Parks alongside Leeds United Football Club. Each year the event seems to bring together
Through the Maze is an information advice and sign posting service for adults with learning disabilities in South Leeds. Through the Maze are starting the year by inviting adults with learning disabilities from across Leeds to join them at their new drop in sessions. If you have a learning disability
Plans have been revealed for the final phase of CTP’s development at Granary Wharf in the Holbeck Urban Village area of South Bank. The site, which is currently used as a surface level long stay car park, is located next to the Leeds Liverpool Canal on Wharf Approach off Water
Dodging blustery showers, residents, school children, Councillors, staff from builders Keepmoat and Housing Leeds came together on Friday (29 January 2016) to celebrate the completion of new council housing in Holbeck. Before the new community garden was opened, people gathered in The Holbeck club out of the rain. First we
Starting from today we will be publishing 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 25 January 2016: Change of use from Class A1 (shops) to Class A3 (restaurants & cafes)
Hunslet Hawks had a bad day at the office today (Sunday 31 January 2016) as they were outclassed by Batley Bulldogs at the Fox’s Biscuits stadium, losing 28-6. On a pitch that one player described as “a bit of a mud bath”, Batley’s superior kicking game proved decisive. This was
UPDATED 15:39 30 January 2016 Police would like to confirm that Sandra Haluskova, who was the subject of an earlier missing persons appeal, has been found. Thank you for sharing our appeal. Police are urgently appealing for information to trace a 16-year-old girl who has gone missing in Leeds.
While growing up in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s and 30s, Iby Knill was not aware that she and her fully-assimilated family were Jews, and did not even know what it meant to be Jewish. But its significance became all too apparent when Nazi racial laws were imposed, leading to inconveniences,