What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
‘Everywhere’s in the Middle of Everywhere’ is a story written by Richard Smyth, an award-winning writer and TLS journalist. The story, reproduced below (beware of strong language), is the product of Richard’s tenure as a Writer in Residence in 2019 at Middleton Park. Richard’s residency was supported by Friends of
After teaching assistant Tracy Smith told Year 5 pupils at Windmill Primary School in Belle Isle about the work she was doing with a group called The Homeless And the Needy, they were keen to help. The group supports people living rough on the streets of Leeds with food, drink
We have been distributing copies of the April newspaper to venues around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (Thursday 1 April 2021). Copies are available from various food shops including Beeston Co-op, Middleton Asda and Dewsbury Road Tescos as well as many small neighbourhood shops. We have been unable to
You may be decluttering, you may have bought new furniture and need to get rid of old items, or perhaps you doing some DIY and have more waste than can go in your bin. Whatever the reason there are plenty of ways to dispose of unwanted items safely and legally.
Thursday 6 May 2021 will see two sets of local elections. We have the opportunity to elect Leeds City Councillors and a new West Yorkshire Mayor. A third of Councillors will be up for election, one in each ward in the city. In South Leeds Cllr Gohar Almass (Beeston &
Plans for 119 new council houses and a 60 bedroom extra care facility will go before Councillors sitting on the South & West plans Panel on Thursday 1 April 2021. As we have reported previously, this project will develop land bounded by Throstle Road, Throstle Lane and Middleton Park Avenue,
CEG, the developers of various sites on Globe Road and Water Lane in Holbeck and owners of Temple Works, has submitted a planning application seeking to revitalise Drapers Yard on Marshall Street in Leeds for Labcorp, a global diagnostics and drug development company at the heart of life-science innovation in
The latest meeting to discuss the previously accessibility concerns surrounding Skelton Grange Road bridge was held virtually last Friday (12 March 2021) to explore the preferred options previously identified by stakeholders. As previously reported here and here access along the Trans Pennine cycling Trail is blocked at Skelton Grange Road
NHS Leeds and Leeds City Council are working together to provide a pop up Covid-19 vaccination centre on Maud Avenue in Beeston next week. A section of the road between Building Blocks nursery and Hamara Centre will be closed to traffic and a mobile vaccination minibus will be used to
Leeds Civic Trust organised an online meeting last week (11 March 2021) to hear about progress with renovating the iconic Temple Works in Holbeck. Temple Works was built as a flax mill in 1838-41 by John Marshall, more recently it was used as a warehouse by Kay’s catalogue. Having lain