What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A new Communication and Engagement Group in Holbeck, Chaired by Councillor Andrew Scopes, held its first meeting last week. Councillor Scopes and his colleagues Gohar Almass and Angela Gabriel identified a need for a group to help plan Holbeck’s future and also ensure the local community are fully involved in
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. Please note that due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak Leeds City Council is not accepting written representations made by post. Please make any comments online and address them to
Two Asda stores in South Leeds have each chosen a school in their local area to receive ten laptops as part of the supermarket’s initiative to provide over 7,000 laptops to schools across the UK to help tackle digital exclusion. Asda Beeston nominated Ingram Road Primary School in Holbeck, whilst
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
The precise locations of the high explosive bombs which fell on Leeds during its worst World War ll air raid have been mapped for the very first time by a team of students at Leeds Beckett University (LBU). The exact sites and stories of these bombs can be seen on
Cazoo, the UK’s leading online car retailer opened its latest Customer Centre on Domestic Road in Holbeck on 4 March 2021. This marks the 17th location opened by Cazoo in the past 6 months. Cazoo acquired the site late last year and has since invested over £1m and created 15
A Holbeck school has been crowned the best club in Yorkshire and Humber in the annual Kellogg’s Breakfast Club Awards. Ingram Road Primary School was voted by a panel of judges as the best breakfast club in Yorkshire and Humber. The school has received a cash prize of £1,000 to
Get Set Leeds Local (GSLL) is a 3 year Sport England funded project within Beeston Hill and Holbeck (along with New Wortley and Seacroft) providing insight back to Sport England about how a place based approach can support change. We’re going to start a monthly update within South Leeds Life
Following on from our report yesterday on the ongoing Cladding Crisis, we spoke to affected residents. Here they are in their own words: Mo: “I bought my flat in 2019, and the survey showed nothing up. Literally weeks later, defects were discovered, the waking watch started, and we’ve since been
Thousands of local residents remain locked in a bitter and urgent battle for major safety renovations on their flat blocks – and to avoid having to foot the punishingly high costs themselves. Earlier this month (10 February 2021) saw the government’s long-awaited £3.5bn Building Safety Fund (BSF) announcement, to tackle