What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Leeds-based housing campaign group Hands Off Our Homes is inviting all residents of Leeds and surrounding areas to a Regional Housing Summit on Saturday 12 March 2016. Many of you will know Hands Off Our Homes for its campaigning against the bedroom tax, and for supporting tenants who were
I see the Right To Buy is back in the news this week, with a plan to extend it to housing association homes. Regular readers of this column will not be surprised to learn that I don’t think this is a very good idea. Perhaps it’s worth re-capping a brief
Plans for new houses at the Garnets in Beeston will be go on show at a consultation event to be held on Tuesday 20 January 2015. South Leeds Life understands the council plans to build 25 two and three bedroom homes with gardens for rent to replace the 150 back
I was at a meeting this week between a residents group and Council officers. We were sorting out the right permissions to move a project forward. One of the officers (no names, no pack drill) was shocked to discover that as a group the residents knew more about the
New council houses are springing up across Beeston Hill and Holbeck and the council has said they will go to people with good tenancy records and local connections. So that’s all good. The council’s announcement said 75% of the 275 new homes will be let to council tenants with
One South Leeds resident has particular reason to celebrate a milestone in Leeds City Council’s ambitious drive to create more housing for the city. Peter Wood lives in the hundredth house to be refurbished under the council’s housing regeneration project which is making houses more energy efficient and up
The latest newsletter has been issued by sc4L, the consortium delivering the PFI-funded housing regeneration scheme in Beeston Hill and Holbeck. In the newsletter sc4L report good progress. The first new houses and flats are due to be completed on Folly Lane and Coupland Place in October 2014. The
The Beeston Hill and Holbeck housing regeneration project took another step forward this week with work starting on the first of 275 new build homes. Sc4l are developing a mix of 47 one and two bedroom properties across the three sites at Folly Lane, Coupland Place and Malvern Road
My brother tweeted me last night to let me know that Leeds City Council have announced they will build 400 council houses. It was in the trade rag Inside Housing, so it must be true. I had actually seen the press release the story was based on when it
The Council is consulting its tenants about how council housing in Leeds will be managed in the future. Leaflets have been dropping through letterboxes across the city explaining the proposed changes and asking for comments. There are two organisations managing council housing in our part of the city: Aire Valley