What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Belle Isle will be run by its tenant management organisation for another five years. Belle Isle tenants have voted by a huge majority for Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO) to continue. This was announced at BITMO’s Annual General Meeting last night (26 September 2024) by the Chair, Leon Kirkham.
Clapgate Primary School in Belle Isle was inspected by Ofsted in July and in a report published on Monday (23 September 2024) Inspectors rate the school as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ in Early Years Provision and ‘Outstanding’ in Personal Development. Inspectors report that children value the adults in school: “In the
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 9 September 2024. Click on the description to see the full application: Singe storey rear extension and garage
Senior Councillors are set to take the next step in expanding and modernising Broomfield South SILC (Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre) in Belle Isle when the Executive board meets next week (18 September 2024). The plans would see the main building, which dates from the 1970s, replaced and an extra 100
Belle Isle mountaineer Ellis Robinson’s latest conquest, in this Olympic year, was Mount Olympus in Greece. The fabled home of the Gods has been on Ellis’s to do list since he climbed Kilimanjaro in July 2023. Having gathered sponsors and checking his kit, he headed for Greece to meet the
At Swarthmore Education Centre we are busy preparing to deliver the second year of our Lottery-funded Creative Communities Project. We have some exciting events and activities in store this month and over the coming year and look forward to seeing the amazing artwork that is created. Celebration events On Friday
Council housing is Belle Isle is a bit different to rest of the city. Since the late 1980s it’s been managed by the tenants, first through the Belle Isle Estate Management Board and since 2004 by Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO). The decision to be managed by BITMO rather the
Year 11 students at Cockburn School and Cockburn John Charles Academy celebrated the end of their school life with glamorous Proms at the Village Hotel in Tingley. In August there were further celebrations when they collected their exam results. News of these results will follow in a future edition of
Updated: Detectives investigating the murder of a parcel delivery driver in Leeds have arrested a second man following a public appeal. Eddie Hampshire, aged 24, from Belle Isle, Leeds, has been arrested on suspicion of murder in relation to the death of Claudiu-Carol Kondor. A woman has also been arrested
Detectives have launched a murder investigation following the death of a delivery driver during an apparent theft of his van in Leeds. At 6.51pm yesterday (20 August 2024), police were called to reports of a man found seriously injured in an incident involving a van in Heights Drive, Wortley. Officers