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 15 July 2019: Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of planning approval 16/04673/FU to enable engineering changes and improve
Leeds City Council’s Executive Board will discuss the Council’s response to the consultation on plans to run the new HS2 high speed rail line on a viaduct through South Leeds. The report to Wednesday’s meeting (24 July 2019) raises concerns about the visual impact of the viaduct calling for more
Proposals for HS2 High Speed Rail in South Leeds continue to divide and dismay local residents after a public consultation at the Hunslet Club on Saturday (22 June 2019). It comes after the Department for Transport revealed earlier this month plans to construct a 3.3km viaduct to take the new
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 17 June 2019: Part two storey parts single storey side and rear extensions 149 Cross Flatts Grove Cross Flatts
The latest details plans for the new High Speed rail (HS2) route into Leeds will see a new viaduct built to carry the line high over Hunslet. As previously reported on South Leeds Life, the HS2 line is due to enter Leeds via Woodlesford and the existing train corridor through
Budding sculptors can join two workshops down at Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Stourton this month. On Friday (17 May 2019) Master Willow Weaver Phil Bradley will lead a Willow Hare sculpture workshop from 10am-4pm. During the day you will learn to create a willow sculpture of your own and
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 1 April 2019: 13 non-illuminated signs The Sugar Refinery 432 Dewsbury Road Hunslet Leeds LS11 7DF Ref. No: 19/01881/ADV
So Leeds City Council are debating a climate emergency in Leeds. Excuse me if I don’t get excited because they are already misrepresenting their own debate. Let’s be clear what they mean: a climate crisis for the city centre, which they continue to gentrify at the expense of surrounding inner
Today’s heavy rainfall (Saturday 16 March 2019) in Leeds and across the region saw the River Aire full to the brim in Leeds city centre and along the Hunslet riverfront – but the communities along the river escaped serious flooding. From 2.30pm onwards, the river was recorded to be outside
The new footbridge over the River Aire at Knostrop has has been Commended in this year’s McEwen Awards organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The bridge is a very elegant solution to a civil engineering problem. It sits above the moveable weirs that are part of Flood Alleviation