What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Here’s another entry for the 2019 St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, it has been submitted by Pat Benatmane on behalf of Hunslet Green, the home of the Hunslet Warriors ARLFC. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. Hunslet Green, next to Morrisons in Hunslet, looks
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 4 February 2019: Landscape improvements to external areas of the Round Foundry and Marshalls Mill Round Foundry And Marshalls
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 28 January 2019: Change of use of ground floor training centre (use Class D1) to five dwellings (use Class
Middleton and Belle Isle Councillor Paul Truswell spoke passionately about the need for more social housing at the last Council meeting (16 January 2019), and welcomed plans for extra care housing in Middleton for older people. He and his colleagues, Judith Blake and Kim Groves, are also pressing for more
Belle Isle Elderly Winter Aid recently celebrated their Annual Party at Belle Isle Working Mens’ Club, with 78 older people attending. There was an entertainer, food, a grand raffle with many prizes, and of course bingo! Two dedicated Volunteers – Jean Burton (former Chair and Trustee) with 27 year’s service,
The start of a new term saw the introduction of a new initiative at Cockburn John Charles Academy which looks to support families in the local community with English as a second language. The EAL department at the academy is working closely with Path Yorkshire, a not-for-profit organisation who help
Councillors on the City Plans Panel overwhelmingly backed the controversial Park & Ride Scheme at Stourton at their meeting today (24 January 2019). The scheme will see parking for 1200 cars on land between Hunslet Cemetery and Junction 7 of the M621. The site will be served by electric buses
The planning application for the controversial Park & Ride scheme at Stourton will come back to the City Plans Panel next Thursday (24 January 2019). As previously reported on South Leeds Life, Councillors on the panel agreed in principle to the scheme, but blasted officers for lack of information in
Amelia Wood, a member of the 5th Middleton Brownies has achieved something very few girls ever manage – she has been awarded all 57 interest badges available to Brownies. Brownies work towards interest badges in their own time, choosing topics and skills they are interested in and exploring everything from languages
The decision on the major new Park and Ride scheme proposed for Stourton has been postponed, after councillors on the City Plans panel blasted the Council’s own presentations – and local campaigners have vowed to battle on against the project. The cross-party panel – which decides on whether or not