What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Creative Lives, the registered charity that champions community and volunteer-led arts activity, held its 2022 Creative Lives Awards ceremony in Leeds last month. Each year, the Awards ceremony is held in a different location across the UK and Ireland. This year, it took place in Leeds on 7 March 2023
As part of Leeds 2023 Year of Culture, Leeds People’s Theatre and Slung Low have teamed up with the acclaimed Manchester Collective to stage a community performance of Noah’s Flood. In this vibrant staging of Benjamin Britten’s community opera, director Alan Lane tells a story of hope and survival, featuring
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 3 April 2023: Single storey side extension 63 Winrose Drive Belle Isle Leeds LS10 3HP Ref. No: 23/01986/FU
Here’s a roundup of some the main events taking place over the coming week in South Leeds. For full listings go over to our What’s On calendar here. We start this week at Middleton Park Circus where the monthly Makers Market takes place on Saturday from 10am-2pm. Stalls will be
There was a host of young scientists at DePuy Synthes in Beeston on Tuesday 28 March as pupils from neighbouring Hugh Gaitskell Primary School presented their scientific investigations. Children in Years 3, 4 and 5 had been working in small groups over the previous week on questions such as ‘What
Leeds City Council has given formal notice that it intends to divert the old cobbled path that runs along the side of the current Cockburn School site. The diversion of this path was included in the planning permission of the new 3G pitches being built on some of the former
The candidates for the 2023 Leeds City Council elections have been announced. We’ve published full lists of the candidates on separate pages for Beeston & Holbeck ward, Hunslet & Riverside ward and Middleton Park ward. We’re writing to all the candidates to ask them about why they are standing and
A local business, Instaplanta (Yorkshire) Ltd has taken Leeds City Council to the Competition Appeal Tribunal claiming the local authority is using its position to block Instaplanta’s business unfairly. The row has been going on for years as we reported back in September 2020, the firm based in Hunslet Moor
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 27 March 2023: Revised site layout of waste recycling facility and construction of a larger building for processing
Here’s a roundup of some the main events taking place over the coming week in South Leeds. For full listings go over to our What’s On calendar here. We start this week in Beeston where Cross Flatts Parkrun is celebrating its tenth birthday on Saturday morning. The free, 5km walk,