What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
Last week I accompanied local residents Ed Carlisle and Dennis Kitchen, Cllr Richard Lewis and staff from Network Rail walking the 1.7 km of the Holbeck Viaduct. The 145 year old structure runs from Gelderd Road to Globe Road in Holbeck. Trains haven’t run on it since the 1960s
The community came out to celebrate the start of house building in Holbeck. Unity Homes & Enterprise are building 42 new houses and flats on the Brown Lane East site next to Holbeck Moor. Although not officially part of the PFI funded housing regeneration scheme, the homes are being
I joined a tour of Temple Works last week to see around the amazing structure that once boasted the largest room in the world. Temple Works is the strange Egyptian looking building on Marshall Street in Holbeck. It was built as a flax mill and was state-of-the-art in 1840.
This article first appeared on The Leeds Guardian blog IN BRIEF: Council could take ownership of Round Foundry and Leodis Court – weeks after agreeing to sell Engine House Moves could ‘aid regeneration of Holbeck Urban Village area’ Latest in series of Leeds South Bank regeneration agreements. STORY: A major
The Beeston Hill and Holbeck housing regeneration project took another step forward this week with work starting on the first of 275 new build homes. Sc4l are developing a mix of 47 one and two bedroom properties across the three sites at Folly Lane, Coupland Place and Malvern Road