Tag: Beeston Community Forum

South Leeds Roundup: Blue buildings and Easter Bunnies

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. Well done to Karl Wilson at Leeds Autism services in Hunslet who has got public buildings in Leeds to light up in blue to mark World Autism Awareness Day on Thursday

Asda and planners under fire at Beeston Forum

After last month’s poor performance, Asda once again found themselves in the firing line at Beeston Community Forum on Thursday (5 March 2015). A packed meeting heard that despite assurances at the previous meeting that Asda would “fully consult with the forum in future”, a further planning application has been

South Leeds Roundup: Seizures, smiles and supporters

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. It’s a bit shorter and later this week as we’ve been tied up putting the March newspaper together. We start this week in Middleton Park. ‘Take nothing but photos, leave nothing

Asda needs its Hard Hat at Beeston Forum

Representative of Asda seemed under-prepared when they addressed the Beeston Community Forum on Thursday (5 February 2015). Representatives from Asda and their PR company, the appropriately named Hard Hat, had come to inform residents that work was underway on the new store on Old Lane which is due to open

South Leeds Roundup: Turtles, travellers and tags

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with Beeston blogger Mike Wallis who’s written about making turtles over on his Backwards Lion blog. If you’ve a sweet tooth you might be interested in this

Beeston Neighbourhood Forum gets the go-ahead

Leeds City Council agreed to designate Beeston Neighbourhood Forum on 5 January 2015. This is welcome news and enables the Beeston community  to come together to discuss and resolve the issues identified when the designated area was consulted in June 2014. The process will culminate in the writing of the Beeston

South Leeds Roundup: parties, plans and personal bests

Happy New Year! Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week at Holbeck Working Men’s Club, or The Holbeck as we must learn to call it, and their New Year’s Eve party. The club has

Beeston Forum to object to Aspiring Communities’ plan

A packed meeting of Beeston Community Forum overwhelmingly agreed to send a formal objection to Leeds City Council over the Aspiring Communities’ planning application at its meeting last Thursday (6 November 2014). The meeting heard that the Forum Secretary, Robert Winfield, had been copied into an email to Councillors about

South Leeds Roundup: Cenotaphs, clean-ups, and civic receptions

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with a tweet we spotted from Cllr Kim Groves (@groves_kim): “Observence of Remembrance Service Hunslet Cemetery Cenotaph Sunday 9th November at 3pm to pay respect to those

Beeston Community Forum applies for Designation of Beeston Neighbourhood Forum

  Beeston Community Forum submitted its application to Leeds City Council for Beeston Neighbourhood Forum to be designated on 22 September 2014.  This is the next stage in the process towards producing the Beeston Plan.  Public notices have been posted in Beeston Library, shops, public buildings and notice boards in