What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Leeds City Council has published an update on its five-year medium term financial strategy, outlining the severe difficulties it faces to deliver balanced budgets in the face of the continued need to make significant savings. The report, discussed today at the council’s executive board meeting, explains how the council needs
Public consultation on Leeds City Council’s annual budget proposals to deliver an estimated further £58.4 million savings, alongside an additional £7.4 million of already agreed savings, in the next financial year has now begun. The 2024/25 budget proposals show how the council intends to address the funding gap including a proposed
The closure of Thwaite Watermill museum in Stourton and new car parking charges at Middleton Park, service and staffing reductions and price increases are among wide-ranging changes being proposed as Leeds City Council sets out its annual budget plans for next year. The council has published its initial budget proposals
Leeds City Council chiefs are having to consider a range of additional measures including significant staffing reductions, building closures and asset sales as the latest steps in the ongoing major budget challenge. At the meeting of the council’s executive board at the Civic Hall on Wednesday 18 October 2023, a
Public consultation on Leeds City Council’s annual budget proposals to deliver an estimated £69.8million savings in the next financial year has now begun. The 2023/24 budget proposals include a proposed council tax increase of 4.99%, with two per cent of that earmarked for Adult Social Care funding.We reported in more detail
The Leader of Leeds City Council has called for “fundamental changes” as to how councils are funded after announcing budget proposals which require the delivery of £69.8million savings in the next financial year. Council Leader Councillor James Lewis made the comments as the details of the proposed budget for 2023/24
Stark impact of coronavirus on council’s budget outlined to executive board Proposals to tackle Leeds City Council’s significant budget shortfall, which has risen sharply due to the continued costs of coronavirus, are set to be discussed by senior councillors next week. As part of a meeting of the executive board on
So Middleton Golf Course faces closure as Leeds City Council seeks to make more than £50 million in savings. The official line from on high is that the council has already made £145m in savings over the past two years and yet more are needed. Council leader Keith Wakefield says
Campaigners fighting to get South Leeds Sports Centre reopened will today lobby councillors before a meeting of the full council at Leeds Civic Hall. Councillors are meeting to set the budget in Leeds for the next financial year – a budget which sees the council attempting to save £55 million