What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds City Council’s Joint Plans Panel discussed a report on historic listed buildings in the city at risk of neglect and decay at its meeting on 17 December. There are 112 buildings deemed to be at risk out of a total of 2,478 listed buildings in the city. Of those
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. Please note that due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak Leeds City Council is not accepting written representations made by post. Please make any comments online and address them to
At 9.19am on Christmas morning (25 December 2020) police were called to a ram raid robbery at a barbers on Dewsbury Road, Beeston. A red pickup truck had driven into the front of the barbers stealing a cash machine. The red pickup truck left the scene towards Beeston Hill and
Councillors in Beeston & Holbeck ward are working to improve an area of greenspace at Beggar’s Hill in Beeston which has been blighted by litter and flytipping. The area slopes down from Holbeck Cemetery and the Nosters and Marleys, to Elland Road and the M621 motorway. Conscious of the benefits
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. Please note that due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak Leeds City Council is not accepting written representations made by post. Please make any comments online and address them to
The bottom of Wesley Street is to be closed to traffic from Monday 4 January 2021 as work to create a new cycle lane is rescheduled to avoid congestion when Leeds’s mass Covid-19 vaccination programme starts. In a letter to Councillors seen by South Leeds Life, Nick Boras, Principal Engineer
Local residents are being encouraged to have their say over improvements to an important piece of green space. Brickfield Park is located on Lady Pit Lane next to Beeston Hill and close to Lady Pit Lane Allotments. Whether you currently use the park or not, the Council would like to
Police are still guarding a crime scene in Beeston after raiding the former Cuedos snooker hall on Dewsbury Road last Thursday (10 December 2020). As we reported, officers acted on community intelligence and found a cannabis farm with 500 plants plus a substantial quantity of Class A drugs. Two men
“I’ll have a blue Christmas without you,” sang Elvis Presley in 1957. 63 years later and Christmas will be ‘blue’ for many people. We’ll be missing people who would usually be with us at the special time of the year. Some of you will have lost people you love during
Last Saturday (12 December 2020) saw LS11 residents out in (socially-distant) numbers, to enjoy the spectacle of Christmas carols and festive cheer blasting out from an illuminated open-top bus and bicycle procession – as a Covid-safe alternative to the popular annual Lantern Festival. Over two hours, the bus wove its