What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Work has started to build 245 new homes at the historic Tower Works site on Globe Road in the South Bank area of Holbeck. Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd has now commenced ground works on the 1.13 hectare site and construction is expected to complete early 2023. Sir Robert McAlpine will
Due to the very heavy snow this morning (2 February 2021) and subsequent difficult conditions on roads and paths, on public safety grounds, bin collections have been suspended for the day. Also closed today following the bad weather are all libraries and community hubs in the city. Please keep any
New ‘Aire Loft’ apartments set to bring more residents to Citu’s low carbon Climate Innovation District, with 20 per cent of Phase One reserved within hours of being released to market. Leading sustainable developer Citu has launched Aire Lofts, the first apartments at its award-winning Climate Innovation District in Leeds,
Police are appealing for information to trace missing Jozef Turtak from Leeds. The 34-year-old was last seen at about 11pm on Saturday 30 January 2021 in the East Leeds area and police are concerned for his welfare. He is described as 6ft tall with having dyed blonde hair and as
Leeds Civic Trust present their 14th year of free lunchtime lectures on the history of Leeds. These talks offer viewers the chance to be transported back to a fascinating era in the city’s past. This year’s illustrated lectures cover the white heat of the industrial revolution in our city, the
The latest plans for a £24.198 million rail station at White Rose, Leeds, are among the items to be considered by members of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Investment Committee. Members will be asked to progress plans for the new rail station between Morley and Cotttingley on the Transpennine route
Plans for a transport network – including a new mass transit system – that connects all West Yorkshire’s communities to jobs, education and opportunity are set out today (27 January 2021). The proposals identify where people will live and work in the coming decades, the journeys they will need to
It will be much easier to find your way around Holbeck soon thanks to up to 100 new street signs, funded by local Councillors Gohar Almass, Andrew Scopes and Angela Gabriel, that are being installed across the area. As the original Victorian cast iron signs have got older some of
People are being asked for their views on plans for £7.06 million of new cycling routes across Leeds, as part of Leeds City Council’s plans aimed to encourage more people to travel by bike, in partnership with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. The new plans add 7kms of cycle lanes,
Leeds Credit Union is celebrating the success of its recent festive campaign, as results show it saved the local community £3.13million in high interest payments in the run up to Christmas. Whilst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and ever changing lockdown restrictions meant Christmas 2020 was a time of sadness and