What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Councillors in Beeston & Holbeck ward are working to improve an area of greenspace at Beggar’s Hill in Beeston which has been blighted by litter and flytipping. The area slopes down from Holbeck Cemetery and the Nosters and Marleys, to Elland Road and the M621 motorway. Conscious of the benefits
Can a community change? All of our neighbourhoods locally are blighted with some level of littering and flytipping – but the Beeston Hill area is probably one of the hardest hit. A team of volunteers and residents – led by local campaigner Ed Carlisle and the local Green Party –
Residents of the H2010 neighbourhood on the Hunslet riverfront this month sprung into action to tackle a major flytipping incident in the River Aire. They and other locals were disgusted to spot dozens of bin liners (they have counted at least 50) full of waste floating in the river from
Someone has fly tipped a load of rubbish on the road just to the left of the main gate inside Middleton Park. This is so obvious that it looks like a statement about dissatisfaction about council tips being closed. The statement it makes however, is much more about the selfish
Residents warned to take responsibility for household rubbish otherwise risk the chance of being fined Leeds residents are being warned to make sure they arrange for registered waste collectors to remove any household rubbish from their property otherwise they may find themselves with a fine. Earlier this year the government
Summer spree of flytipping sees local man lose his van and land 60 hours community work A local man has had his van seized and be given 60 hours of unpaid community work after he dumped waste in the city on seven different occasions during the summer. David Falconer, of
Via Cllr Kim Groves: Another successful prosecution at Leeds Magistrates this week by our team. Dwaine Martin, a landlord from Bradford, flytipped this from a property he has in Beeston onto a Belle Isle street. This has cost him £4,500. Evidence and witness statements were gathered and
Two residents from City and Hunslet have been fined by Leeds City Council for dumping waste on the streets. Local councillors Mohammed Iqbal, Elizabeth Nash and Patrick Davey have welcomed the tough action taken by the council to tackle fly-tipping in the area. The two residents from Linden Grove and
Belle Isle and Middleton have both seen vast improvements in their environment according to local Councillors Kim Groves, Judith Blake and Paul Truswell. Councillor Groves recently went to meet the locality team responsible for the transformation to thank them personally for the difference they have made to the area, which
Work is now complete in the Recreations area of Holbeck to redevelop the binyards. The improvements will help take bins off the street, secure the bin yards against fly-tipping and introduce communal recycling. Thanks to the active involvement from Beeston and Holbeck Councillors, the new communal bins are now in