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What can be done to improve housing in Holbeck? Now’s your chance to have your say! Construction & Housing Yorkshire (CHY), part of re’new, is carrying out a ‘housing market assessment’ for the Holbeck area, writes Charlotte Brown. A new housing market assessment will identify housing need and requirements for Holbeck
Before the present consultation about a new high school, I confess I hadn’t heard of “City Centre South”. Hunslet? Yes. Holbeck? Yes. But City Centre South? Where’s that? Where is this new part of Leeds? It is bounded by the River Aire to the north, the Inner Ring road extension
A consultation is progressing about plans to open a new high school in “City Centre South” – the area between the River Aire and the motorways. As previously reported, the Leeds Sustainable Development Group (LSDG) have teamed up with Gorse Academies Trust and are proposing the school as a way
Sergeant Di Whiteside attended the latest police and communities together meeting run by the Voice of Holbeck group. Here’s Holbeck NPT’s report: Issues discussed included: • the Neighbourhood Plan. Holbeck is trialling the new government initiative and are looking at long term and short term plans. Once decided there will be a
All the cinemas are gone! Where my friends and I went on a Saturday afternoon for the matinees, they’ve disappeared. They have either been knocked down or redeveloped, writes community reporter Martyn White. Often, on Saturday afternoons my friends and I would go to a matinee at one of the
Community stalwart Dennis Kitchen has sent us this reminder of an event to help decide the future of Holbeck… I am writing to let you know that the next meeting of the Holbeck Neighbourhood Forum will be held on Monday 10th December starting at 6.30 p.m. and finishing by 8.00
Holbeck Christmas Market proved a great success once again. St Matthew’s Community Centre was packed out on Saturday as people sought out Christmas gifts. The event was supported by local Councillors and Hilary Benn MP called in to talk to people and draw the raffle. Ian Pickup, one of the
Santa’s grottos, stalls and attractions will be held at a Christmas Market at St Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck tomorrow. Among the 24 stalls will be information about the new neighbourhood plan, which aims to map out the future of Holbeck. Refreshments will also be on offer at the event,
The Friends of Holbeck Cemetery recently won 105 trees cut from the Royal Household Estate to plant in the cemetery as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. [slideshow_deploy id=’11875′] Today’s planting by the Friends of Holbeck Cemetery was attended by several members of the society, as well as representatives
Did you know that the Dogwood tree, or Cornus sanguinea as it’s known in Latin, played an important role in the textile industry? Or that Crataegus monogyna, the common Hawthorn, is also known as “Ske” in Old Irish, “Porn” in Old Norse and “Hag” in old English? No, neither did