What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Hamara Healthy Living Centre has won a grant of £300,000 from independent trust Power to Change. The grant, part of the trust’s Community Business Fund, will allow Hamara to move the development of the Old Cockburn Sports Hall forward towards planning and detailed designs. Hamara’s vision is to renovate the
Leeds Chiefs 1-4 Milton Keynes Lightning As someone who has spent most of his sporting life on Elland Road watching either Leeds United or Hunslet RLFC during their years at the greyhound stadium, the arrival of a new Ice Hockey team in the area has piqued a bit of interest.
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 10 February 2020: Change of use including alterations to retail shop (A1) and dwelling house (C3) to form House
West Yorkshire Police have confirmed that a man wanted for recall to prison was arrested in Beeston this afternoon (13 February 2020). In a statement they told South Leeds Life: “At 2.23pm today a PCSO on patrol in Harlech Road, Beeston, saw a man who was wanted on recall to
Nappies are an essential part of raising any baby but do you know where they go after it’s been filled and disposed of? According to the Nappy Alliance over 400,000 tonnes of disposable nappies go to landfill every year and take over 500 years to decompose. There is an alternative!
“Starting A-Fresh” is a 6 month programme designed specifically for those who are unemployed and would like to improve their chances of obtaining work and run by Skills 4 Work. Based at Cranmore Drive in Belle Isle it consists of some basic fundamental modules in Maths, English and IT skills,
As part of our Climate Crisis series, South Leeds Life asked local schools what they are doing around environmental education and action. Here are the responses from Cockburn school and Greenmount Primary School in Beeston, but first the members of Westwood Primary School‘s Eco Club in Middleton: We are a
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 3 February 2020: Single storey side and rear; dormer windows to front side and rear, forming new first floor;
An application for planning permission has been submitted to create a community sports hub next to Leeds United’s Elland Road stadium. As previously reported here Leeds City Council are planning to provide four 3G artificial pitches on land at Fullerton Park on Elland Road in Beeston. The scheme is part
NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) and NHS England Specialised Commissioning are currently asking people in Leeds about their proposals for maternity and neonatal services in the area. LTHT is planning to build two new hospitals at Leeds General Infirmary. As part of the plans