What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Kids in Beeston and Holbeck can now enjoy a newly renovated playground at Beggars Hill, with works recently completed including colourful ground markings to encourage active play. The playground now has snakes and ladders, alphabet jump, hexagon hopscotches and a roadway track marked, replacing damaged basket swings. The rock stack
Ward Councillors Annie Maloney, Andrew Scopes and Shaf Ali (Labour, Beeston & Holbeck) are urging residents to have their say on proposals for Cottingley Playground and Skatepark. Potential proposals for the Skatepark include: a new Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA); new access footpaths; maintenance of existing trees and vegetation including some
Last night (24 April 2024) South Leeds Life hosted an online hustings meeting as part of our local elections coverage. All the candidates standing in the ward were invited to attend and take questions from our readers. Subjects covered included: what issues they were most concerned about, transport, policing and
As part of our election coverage South Leeds Life is hosting three online hustings meeting again this year. All the candidates standing in the Leeds City Council elections for our three wards have been invited and we would like you to join us too. This is your opportunity to put
The candidates for the 2024 Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Mayor elections have been announced. We’ve published full lists of the candidates on separate pages for Beeston & Holbeck ward, Hunslet & Riverside ward, Middleton Park ward and for the West Yorkshire Mayor. We’re writing to all the candidates
The most deprived areas of Leeds are home to 18 times more outdoor advertising than the city’s least deprived areas, according to new national research. The research, from campaign group Adfree Cities, finds that of 1,597 roadside outdoor advertisements in Leeds, 550 (34%) are in the most deprived decile (10th)
Leeds City Council is undertaking work to trees in Cross Flatts Park to address the threat of ash dieback disease, a fungal infection that is killing ash trees across the UK. The council has commissioned TreeSaw, a professional tree service company, to carry out the works, which will involve the
Local children’s charity, Kidz Klub Leeds, have been busy setting out a vision of the kind of play areas they want to see developed in their community. The children showed off their design skills after Beeston and Holbeck Ward Councillors, Andrew Scopes, Annie Maloney and Gohar Almass, supported their visit
On 31 October 2023 local members from the Beeston and Holbeck Labour Party selected Sharafat (Shaf) Ali as their candidate to face the 2024 Local Elections. This comes following the resignation of Councillor Gohar Almass who announced he will be stepping down due to health reasons. Sharafat Ali commented: “I
Councillor Gohar Almass (Labour, Beeston & Holbeck) has announced that he is to step down at the next election in May 2024. Cllr Amass was facing a deselection battle within the Beeston & Holbeck Labour Party Branch, but announced he wouldn’t be seeking reselection hours before Tuesday night’s branch meeting