What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
On Monday night (25 April 2022) South Leeds Life hosted an online hustings meeting as part of our local elections coverage. Please forgive the delay in posting this video, we’ve had some technical issues, but managed to resolve them now. You can watch the whole meeting here:
Construction work has started on Leeds’ £26.5 million new White Rose Rail Station delivered in partnership by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Leeds City Council, Munroe K, Network Rail and the Department for Transport. The rail station between Morley and Cotttingley on the Transpennine route will make it easier to
Wonderful weather, great camaraderie, and a good cause brought out the best in people when volunteers got together at Cottingley Crematorium on Saturday (12 March 2022). Thirty people collected twenty-five bags of litter from the site. Everyone was raring to get started and it was lovely to have some very
Spring cleaning is well and truly underway in Cottingley as Councillors Andrew Scopes, Angela Gabriel and Gohar Almass help fund skips for a series of community clean-ups to help residents dispose of their unwanted items. As the Refuse Team empty the bins on the estate on Mondays and the Cleaner
It’s never been easier to get a Covid jab with vaccination clinics running across our communities this month. Whether you haven’t got around to getting your booster yet, or haven’t had your first or second jab, you can walk in to these clinics without an appointment. BITMOs GATE centre, Aberfield
We started our Christmas Festivities on Wednesday 8 December with our members Christmas Party at the Cornmill Lodge Leeds. Members from MHA South Leeds (formerly South Leeds Live At Home) and MHA Rothwell came together to enjoy a fabulous 3 course lunch with Turkey and all the trimmings. With a
Leeds City Council have developed a new way of lowering the cost of evening burials by reducing the price for lighting. This has been achieved by offsetting the purchase costs for two new sets of tower lights over the next five years, rather than annually hiring lighting. This has allowed
People in Leeds are being urged to grab their booster jab before New Year, as the NHS goes all out to protect the city against the Omicron variant. Vaccination centres will be open throughout the festive break so that people can get a jab while they are off work or
The Drysalters pub on the Ring Road near the Cottingley Hall estate has been saved from demolition, again. A Planning Inspector has dismissed the developer’s appeal after Leeds City Council rejected their planning application to demolish the pub and build a drive-through coffee shop. In his report the Inspector, C
Beeston & Holbeck Ward will have a new Councillor next May after the Labour Party choose Annie Maloney to fight the seat in place of sitting Councillor Angela Gabriel. South Leeds Life understands that it is normal practice in the party for sitting Councillors to be reselected ‘on the nod’.