What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
‘£1 billion World Trade Center plan could transform Leeds’ South Bank’ screamed the headline in the YEP recently. Centred around the Tetley site, a masterplan to help transform “Leeds’ South Bank” over the next 100 years has apparently been drawn up by ‘leading architects and developers in the city’. The ‘One
Buildings across South Leeds will be opened up to the public for Heritage Open Days next weekend, 11-14 September 2014. Heritage Open Days is billed as a national celebration of England’s architecture and culture. “Every year on four days in September, buildings of every age, style and function throw
A group called Leeds Plan C are leading an event on Saturday (3 May 2014) which promises to explore Hunslet’s “contested past, uncertain present and several possible futures”. The first of two linked events is a guided walk around Hunslet. It sets off from The Tetley at 1:30pm and explores
A new high school and a new pedestrian route are set to reshape parts of Hunslet. Plans are taking shape for two developments that will change the landscape in the old industrial heartland of Hunslet. The site for the Ruth Gorse Academy has been named as Black Bull Street,
We’ve had some stick here at South Leeds Towers whenever we’ve mentioned ‘city centre south’. Some readers tell us they’ve never heard of it! And I suppose they have a point. ‘City Centre South’, as it’s known, is the name given to the area between the River Aire and the
We are to get a new high school, the Ruth Gorse Academy. I say we, the sponsors seem to be promoting it as a city centre school, but then they also say it will connect to and the communities of Holbeck, Beeston and Hunslet. The cynic in me thinks
Councillors met last night (6 November 2013) as the Inner South Area Committee and amongst the topics debated were Middleton Park golf course, the new Asda at Middleton and the new Ruth Gorse Academy high school. The meeting always starts with an open forum where any local resident can
The largest Free School in the country has been approved by the government in the city centre to the south of the river, in what promoters hope will become a truly sustainable community. It is hoped the new school will be a significant catalyst for the transformation of this area,
Before the present consultation about a new high school, I confess I hadn’t heard of “City Centre South”. Hunslet? Yes. Holbeck? Yes. But City Centre South? Where’s that? Where is this new part of Leeds? It is bounded by the River Aire to the north, the Inner Ring road extension
Ambitious plans for what could be the largest free school in the country have been revealed. The Leeds Academy, which would be located in “city centre south”, is expected to cost around £17million and could be a catalyst for the regeneration of the area between the River Aire and the