What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The South & West Plans Committee approved a report from planning officers on the controversial Ice Pak development on Barkly Road in Beeston at the their meeting on Thursday 18 February. A summary of the report was published on South Leeds Life on 11 February. The final recommendation is
The controversial planning application to convert the former Ice Pak factory in Beeston is to be discussed by the council’s South and West Plans Panel next Thursday (18 February 2016). The application to create a community building including sports hall and prayer room was submitted by Aspiring Communities in October
The decision on the controversial plans for the former Ice Pak factory on Barkly Road in Beeston will now be decided by a Planning Inspector after Aspiring Communities lodged an appeal for ‘non-determination’. The application was due to be heard at the South & West Plans Panel meeting on Thursday
People in South Leeds have been marking the tragic events in Paris on Friday night with small shows of solidarity. As well as the minute’s silence which was widely observed at 11am, St Mary’s Church in Beeston was opened all day today (16 November 2015) for prayer and quiet reflection.
The South & West Plans panel was due to decide today (6 August 2015) on the controversial Aspiring Communities plan for the Ice Pak site in Beeston. But Planning officers pulled their report from the agenda just 24 hours before the meeting. The following statement was placed on the Council’s
The controversial plans for a sports hall with community and prayer rooms on the former Ice Pak site on Barkly Road in Beeston will go before a Council Plans Panel next week with a recommendation to refuse planning permission. The plans brought forward by local charity Aspiring Communities have raised
South Leeds charity Aspiring Communities this last weekend (Sunday 7 June) organised their annual gathering to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. Now in its fourth year, the event attracted 600+ people from across the city and the north of England. It featured a long, colourful procession through the
I’m guessing that this column is going to please no one. My regular readers will be expecting something witty, pithy and topical about how some feature of modern life particularly affects us here in South Leeds. People who disagree with me on a certain planning application will be annoyed that
The Save Our Beeston (SOB) Campaign has published an open letter to their local councillors raising further concerns with the proposed development of the Ice Pak site by Aspiring Communities. The letter, written by SOB’s honorary secretary Sean Sturman, argues that the group’s current plans will not meet their stated
I was pulled up by a comment on the blog this week, a sarcastic reference to the ‘unbiased editor’. Who knew editing a local news blog would be so tricky? I knew from an early age that ‘the media’ was biased. My (Australian) mother railed against Rupert Murdoch when he