What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
What makes a neighbourhood a good or a bad place to live? Last Friday Leeds-List published an article called ‘Best and worst places to live in Leeds’. Beeston and Holbeck featured on the list, but for my money in the wrong section. The article kicked up quite a storm on
A South Leeds initiative is encouraging men to spend time in the shed. Originating from Australia in 2006, ‘Men in Sheds’ is a growing initiative that is spreading across the UK, there are currently 70 sheds in the UK, one of those being in Holbeck in South Leeds. Funded by
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A £50k programme to improve Holbeck Moor playground has been completed and been opened by local Councillors. Councillors David Congreve and Adam Ogilvie (Beeston & Holbeck) were joined by pupils from the nearby Ingram Road Primary School to open the new facilities. The improvements, completed by the Council’s Parks
The issue of prostitution in Holbeck is contentious. John Cockburn has been to interview staff from the Joanna Project which works with women to help them escape drug addiction and prostitution. The full interview is well worth a read. The first of a short series of interviews with the
A Cold Calling Control Zone has been set up to protect the residents in the Beeston and Holbeck Ward from Cold Callers, which has been funded by Housing Leeds and Leeds Community Safety. In recent years, through the help of West Yorkshire Trading Standards and partner organisations such as
The Holbeck Neighbourhood Plan was definitely on the government’s radar this week following a visit by Steve Williams MP, the Under Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government. He came to find out from local residents their experience of Neighbourhood Planning in an Inner City
The Cross Ingrams Area Residents Association in Holbeck held its regular bi-monthly meeting on Tuesday evening (25 March) in the Ingram Gardens Community Centre. Around 20 residents attended, the main topic of discussion being the planned prostitute’s drop-in centre on Domestic Street in Holbeck. Jackie Hird from the Joanna charity
The Holbeck Neighbourhood Plan will pass another milestone at a meeting on Saturday (29 March 2014). The Holbeck Neighbourhood Forum will elect a Board of up to 12 local people at its first annual general meeting. The job of the Board is to manage the Forum and oversee the
Plans are currently being developed for a community garden to grow fruit and vegetables in Holbeck and local charity Health For All are seeking community support to help make it happen. The little used games space next to Holbeck Youth and Community Centre could be the site of a