What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
With UK temperatures set to soar late this week as parts of Yorkshire & North East England reach highs of up to 30C, Canal & River Trust is asking people to stay safe by water, avoid open water swimming in their local canals, rivers and reservoirs and seek alternative ways
Waterways and wellbeing charity Canal & River Trust is calling on people across England & Wales to help stop half a million pieces of plastic reaching the ocean by taking its Plastics Challenge this month. The charity, which usually relies heavily on its army of volunteers to help clear the
The development team behind Tower Works in Holbeck are supporting waterway and wellbeing charity Canal & River Trust, the organisation that looks after Leeds & Liverpool Canal. Richardson and Ask are working with the Trust and neighbouring developments, including Mustard Wharf, to improve a 200-metre stretch of the towpath, from
Leeds Inland Port will help take up to 0.5 million tonnes of freight traffic off roads Designs revealed for Leeds Inland Port at Stourton Wharf Inland waterway route will take freight from North Sea into Leeds Construction to commence summer 2020 Canal & River Trust has secured full planning permission
Asda and The Canal and River Trust have taken to the waters of the Leeds & Liverpool canal today to kick start a week-long litter pick which will involve hundreds of colleagues from Asda. The ‘Asda Big Canal Clean-up’ is one of the country’s largest ever, as volunteers aim to
On Friday (1 March 2019) I joined volunteers, the River Stewardship Company and Groundwork, to carry out a litter pick along the river next to the H2010 development in Hunslet. This was one of the weekly volunteer days carried out by River Stewardship Company through Leeds city centre as part
Two new artworks are to appear on the Leeds waterfront later this year after successfully making bids to a new fund. Applications by the Canal & River Trust and Canal Connections CIC have been approved to proceed after being backed with funding support from the new Waterfront Enhancement Fund, set
Stourton is set to get a new inland port as plans for freight traffic to return to our waterways move forward. A planning application has been submitted to create two new wharfs on the River Aire at Stourton capable of handling up to 200,000 tonnes a year of bulk cargoes
Leeds Waterfront Festival 2017 – 10th Anniversary Celebration Weekend 24 and 25 June The annual Leeds Waterfront Festival returns in June and promises to be the best yet! Bringing 4 miles of the city’s waterways to life, the festival will be brimming with activities and creativity on the water, boats
Volunteers from Stourton-based One Subsea made a real difference when they turned out to help clear part of the riverside path and cycleway recently. [slideshow_deploy id=’54762′] On Friday 7 October they cleared the dried silt, left by the Boxing Day floods, off the targeted areas of the cycleway and path