What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A New York-style pizza business can open its first takeaway in the city after plans were agreed with the council. Edges Pizza applied to convert a vacant railway arch at Fourth Court on Bridge Road in Holbeck. Pizzas will be pre-ordered online from the collection-only shop after Leeds City Council
Political control of the city council is set to be confirmed after Labour lost its overall majority in the local elections. The city’s 99 councillors are due to meet at the Civic Hall on Wednesday (20 May 2026) for the authority’s annual meeting. Labour remains by far the city’s biggest
Safety measures will be needed to prevent high winds swirling around a planned 24-storey city centre flats development. Councillors were told wind “baffles” would be used when early-stage designs for the scheme on land at Meadow Lane were presented. Developer Glenbrook hopes to build 246 flats after an agreement was
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
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
A Beeston pub has been allowed later serving hours after reaching agreements with the council and police. The Tommy Wass, on Dewsbury Road, can serve drinks until midnight on Friday and Saturdays after a one-hour extension was granted. The south Leeds premises was also given permission to sell alcohol from
City leaders hope to make the streets safer for disabled and elderly people under plans formally agreed by the council Leeds City Council drew up a Street Charter which sets out measures to make it easier for people to get around. Bins left on pavements, advertising boards, overgrown shrubbery and
The council hopes to press ahead with the expansion of a special needs school after allocating £400,000 for initial work on the project. Broomfield Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre (SILC) in Belle Isle is set to get 100 extra places. The project is expected to cost up to £25m in total
Computer firm Microsoft is set to be given the go-ahead to build a data centre on the site of a former power station. Jobs could be created if the company is given approval for the redevelopment of the Skelton Grange site in Stourton. Microsoft said the facility would boost the
Football will be played in a new indoor facility in south Leeds after plans were agreed with the city council. Plans were drawn up for the conversion of an industrial unit on Pepper Road in Hunslet into a five-a-side playing space. Leeds City Council approved an application for the scheme,