What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Following the article about Beeston Hill Community Association’s meeting on 29 January 2024, Councillors Paul Wray and Mohammed Iqbal (Labour, Hunslet & Riverside) have been in touch to clarify the proposals to change the junction between Tempest Road and Dewsbury Road: We just want to clarify what work is actually
A meeting next Monday (29 January 2024) will debate changes being planned to make the junction of Tempest Road and Dewsbury Road safer. At the last public meeting of Beeston Hill Community Association in November we became aware of significant changes that are being planned for the Tempest Road/Dewsbury Road
A group of 20 Beeston and Holbeck residents, activists and trades unionists met at Cross Flatts Park on Saturday (20 January 2024) and walked together into central Leeds to join the Leeds March for Palestine organised by Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Carrying a ‘Beeston for Palestine’ banner and ‘Freedom for
Beeston Festival held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 11 January, reflecting on another successful event in 2023 and looking ahead to 2024. The Annual Report, which is now available to read and download on the festival website at beestonfestival.org.uk, details how the organising committee plan their work and reflected
It was refreshing to read about the new Cross Flatts football team being formed at the Hamara Centre to, hopefully, start playing in a league next year. Our community, in Cross Flatts, have been starved of a team representing our village for years now, the last team to play, also
There have been two nasty incidents in two popular parks in South Leeds in recent months. First, the two swans were shot in Middleton Park at the end of November. Then a man, who almost certainly knew his attacker, was shot in the leg in Cross Flatts Park earlier this
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 8 January 2024. Click on the description to see the full application: Listed Building Application for internal alterations
Hunslet Nelson Cricket Club are looking for new players of all ages. At open age level the club has three senior teams, a 1st and 2nd XI playing on Saturdays as well as a Sunday XI. The club are also looking for young players who have enthusiasm to train and
Two friends from South Leeds, Paolo Griffiths and Steve Hicky, who both love 1950s and 60s rock’n’roll music have teamed up for The ‘New’ Leeds Rock’n’Roll Club. Paolo and Steve had separate rock’n’roll clubs before Covid, but teamed up last year and ran three successful gigs in 2023 at The
This is a story about some messy concrete on Dewsbury Road. And how our environment shapes us, without us even realising – for better or worse. And how, through small actions, we can change our communities, every day. It all started with some holes in the pavement outside a shop