What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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 20 October 2025. Click on the description to see the full application: Single storey side extension 202 Middleton
St Andrew’s Pantomime Group in Beeston have announced that this year’s show will be Pinocchio. The show will run from Saturday 6 February through to Saturday 21 February 2026 at St Andrew’s Community Centre on Cardinal Road, LS11 8AG. This is always a seasonal highlight in Beeston and bookings are
Last Sunday (12 October 2025) South Leeds paid unique tribute to one of Leeds’s most beloved and admired poets, Tony Harrison, who died at the end of September. Harrison was a Beeston-born poet and dramatist of national significance whose most famous (some might say notorious) work, V, is about Beeston
This month (October 2025) saw a new addition at the popular Rowland Road Play Patch: a ‘Little Book Stop’, a free mini library, for locals to pick up and swap books. The mini library is one of 90 installed across the country, as part of a project by publishing giant
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 13 October 2025. Click on the description to see the full application: Determination for change of use from
A new footpath across the former South Leeds Golf Club, now part of Middleton Park, has opened. The path was built following the decision to close the old cobbled path that ran between Cockburn School and its new 3G sports facility. Designed with accessibility and year-round use in mind, the
Senior councillors have given the go-ahead to a scheme that aims to drive up the standard of private sector rented housing and deliver improved quality of life for thousands of people in Leeds. Proposals for the scheme – which will use a system known as selective licensing to more closely
Fifth-generation luxury bedmaker, Harrison Spinks, has published its 2025 Impact Report, which celebrates record progress in sustainability and social impact, including reducing emissions, planting thousands of trees and handcrafting hundreds of beds for children in poverty. The report’s publication follows Harrison Spinks being awarded ‘Bed Manufacturer of the Year 2025/26’
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 6 October 2025. Click on the description to see the full application: Change of use of former public
Bright ideas from primary school pupils in Beeston will be part of the city’s biggest annual cultural event this month. Creative concepts cooked up by the city’s youngsters will be showcased during October’s dazzling Light Night Leeds, which this year seeks to engage more people across the city than ever