What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning Monday 21 September 2026. Click on the description to see the full application: Retrospective application for external works to
Police have issued an image of an e-bike rider they would like to speak to in relation to a collision on the canal towpath in the Stourton area of Leeds earlier this week. It was reported that at around 12.30pm on Tuesday (22 September 2026), a collision occurred on the
Following two protest swims at Leeds Dock recently, a community walk will take place from Leeds Dock to Thwaite Mills and back on Sunday (27 September 2026) starting at 1pm launching a Campaign to Make Leeds a Swimmable City. Environmental campaigners, outdoor swimmers and supporters are highlighting the value of
Campaigners against the building of a Microsoft data centre complex voiced their opposition at a city centre protest on Saturday (12 September 2026). Microsoft is continuing to face opposition to the scheme at the former Skelton Grange power station site in Stourton. More than 42,000 people have signed a petition
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning Monday 31 August 2026. Click on the description to see the full application: Variation of condition 1 (approved plans)
Green Party councillors on Leeds City Council, including Cllr Ed Carlisle (Hunslet & Riverside) and Matt Rogan (Beeston & Holbeck), have come out against the plans for Microsoft to build a hyperscale Data Centre at the former power station site at Skelton Grange and have issued the following statement: Leeds
The agenda for the next meeting of the Inner South West Community Committee, made up of Councillors for Beeston & Holbeck and Hunslet & Riverside wards, plus Armley and Kirkstall wards, has been published. The meeting, which is open to the public, is taking place at Leeds Civic Hall, LS1
We may have finally come to the end of a long hot summer in Leeds, but the No Leeds Datacentre campaign is still generating its fair share of heat. A group of 170 Leeds residents gathered national attention as they opposed Microsoft’s plans to construct three hyperscale data centre buildings
Grade II listed site on the canal at Stourton, closed since 2024, begins a 12-month community restoration with the public invited to shape what it becomes Thwaite Mills, one of the best-preserved working watermills in Britain, has been taken over by four new owners who will restore it and reopen
Leeds’s only community rowing club is celebrating its most successful season yet after winning seven medals at the British Rowing Junior Championships and competing at the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta. Leeds Rowing Club trains on the Aire and Calder Navigation from its boathouse in Stourton. Following the impact of the