What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Residents are being urged to take up postal voting to avoid pandemic related complications at polling stations. On Thursday 6 May 2021 elections are scheduled to elect councillors to Leeds City Council and a mayor for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. A devolution deal for West Yorkshire was signed into
Voice of Holbeck have published their long-awaited report of the Listening Well project detailing residents views about street sex work and the Council’s ‘Managed Approach’ strategy today (2 February 2021). Listening Well ran over the course of a year up to February 2020 and consisted of nine round table events
Work has started to build 245 new homes at the historic Tower Works site on Globe Road in the South Bank area of Holbeck. Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd has now commenced ground works on the 1.13 hectare site and construction is expected to complete early 2023. Sir Robert McAlpine will
Jack, as an adult, is the co-founder of Leeds Street Gallery which feels not too far away from the teenage Jack who enjoyed scrawling on walls and forcing his version of art onto the public and often on private property. As he got older he explains, he realised that whilst
Eric Whitehouse has just marked 40 years of service at Beeston Hill St Luke’s C of E Primary School, having arrived at the school in January 1981. He is currently the School Manager having retired from his role as Headteacher in July 2011. Two ex-pupils Naomi and Nathaniel Birch (aged
We have been distributing copies of the February newspaper to venues around LS10 and LS11 yesterday and today (Thursday 28 January 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
Today we start a special series of reports on domestic violence, abuse and coercive control As we move into a second month of Lockdown 3, charities and organisations are predicting a worrying rise in domestic abuse, violence and coercive control behaviours. Households are spending more time together than ever before
Community leaders, representatives, and a wide range of South Leeds residents are rallying together to encourage everyone to take up the opportunity to get vaccinated against Covid-19 (also known as Coronavirus) in the coming weeks and months. Ten months on from the Covid-19 pandemic going global and turning the world
South Leeds families covered themselves with glory (and snow) last week, by scooping most of the prizes in the inaugural Leeds Igloo Festival. Sponsored by Leeds Green Party and local charity Playful Anywhere, the competition encouraged people across the city to get creative in the snow, and build their own
Plans for an Energy from Waste (EfW) incinerator plant on the site of the old Skelton Grange power stations are set to come to fruition this year, ten years after a planning application was first submitted. South Leeds Life first reported on plans for such a plant back in February