Senior councillors are expected to approve plans to reduce the number of Community Committees from ten to eight at the meeting of the council’s executive board next Wednesday (24 April 2025).
It will mean the end of the Inner South Community Committee which is currently made up of the nine councillors of Beeston & Holbeck, Hunslet & Riverside and Middleton Park wards.
Under the plans Beeston & Holbeck and Hunslet & Riverside wards will join with Armley and Kirkstall wards in a new Inner South West Community Committee, whilst Middleton Park ward will join the Outer South Community Committee with Morley North, Morley South, Ardsley & Robin Hood and Rothwell wards.
The committees are responsible some Council functions in the area such as street cleaning, green spaces and youth services; and it manages a well-being budget that funds large and small projects and the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Neighbourhood Fund.
The new committees will continue to meet four times a year. Meetings are open to the public and include an open forum where residents can ask questions or raise local issues.
The proposals, which are expected to save £243,000 a year, have been under review for nearly two years and are due to be signed off by full council at its annual general meeting on 22 May.
The proposed ward make up of the eight new Community Committee geographies are:
- Inner South West: Beeston & Holbeck, Hunslet & Riverside, Armley and Kirkstall.
- Outer South: Morley North, Morley South, Ardsley & Robin Hood, Rothwell, and Middleton Park.
- Inner East: Burmantofts & Richmond Hill; Gipton & Harehills, Killingbeck & Seacroft and Roundhay.
- Outer East: Crossgates & Whinmoor; Temple Newsam; Kippax & Methley; and Garforth & Swillington.
- Inner North: Headingley & Hyde Park, Little London & Woodhouse, Chapel Allerton andMoortown.
- Outer North East: Alwoodley; Harewood, Wetherby and Adel & Wharfedale.
- Outer West: Calverley & Farsley, Farnley & Wortley, Pudsey and Bramley &Stanningley.
- Outer North West: Guiseley & Rawdon, Otley & Yeadon, Horsforth and Weetwood.
The full council report can be read in full here (item number 14).
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