Tag: Friends of Sharp Lane Plantation

South Leeds roundup: Holbeck issues, Middleton Park and Santa trains

Good morning South Leeds! Here’s a slightly abridged roundup of what’s been making South Leeds tick over the past week on the area’s top websites, blogs and Facebook. The centrepiece of a £2million revamp of Middleton Park has finally been completed after bad weather caused building delays, reports the YEP. The

South Leeds Links: Holbeck meadows, Middleton crossing and crime

Morning all! Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making South Leeds tick on the area’s websites, blogs and on Facebook. Holbeck’s meadows are still blooming in October, according to Holbeck in Bloom blog. And the group’s got a meeting coming up soon. Middleton residents who were told a busy-three way

South Leeds Links: Hunslet Club, Belle Isle speeding and drugs talk

Here’s your weekly dose of links to what’s making South Leeds tick on the area’s websites, blogs and on Facebook. By the way, remember us mentioning the start of our community correspondents course next Tuesday? We’re fully booked up and oversubscribed, so thanks for your interest. We’ll be running more

South Leeds Links: Tetleys future, police motorway appeal and Holbeck Cemetery

Afternoon all! Here’s your weekly roundup of what’s making south Leeds tick on the area’s blogs, websites and on Facebook. Holbeck Cemetery has 87 Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials plus many other private memorials, and is hosting a Remembrance Sunday walk next month. The Friends of Holbeck Cemetery have blogged about

Fright night as New Forest Village is overrun by zombies!

There’s some ghostly and ghoulish goings on in the New Forest Village area of Middleton! The Friends of New Forest Village would like to invite you to join them from 6.30pm on Wednesday 31st October 2012 at Sharp Lane Plantation as Halloween brings out witches, vampires and zombies! All events begin at

South Leeds links: Hunslet Hawks, cemetery vandalism and naked rambler

Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and on Facebook. Hunslet Hawks rugby club have unveiled their new community minibus, which will be used to take players to local away games, continue the club’s community work and could ferry supporters to and from the South

South Leeds roundup: Holbeck in Bloom, Miggy video and bulb planting

Here’s your weekly roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on different blogs, website and Facebook this week. The folks at Holbeck in Bloom blog have been busy writing about their silver award with the Yorkshire in Bloom competition. There’s also an invitation to their latest group meeting tomorrow. Beeston in

Bulb planting at Sharp Lane Plantation

South Leeds Life reader John Mace has sent us the following details about an event which shows real community pride in the Middleton/Belle Isle area. He writes: “Could you please advertise a bulb planting event on Sharp Lane Plantation, Sunday the 7th of October at 11am? People from New Forest Village

South Leeds roundup: Holbeck Police HQ meeting, Cross Keys and Cottingley Springs

Police are holding another public meeting to discuss  work on building the new Holbeck Division Police HQ off Elland Road. Council bosses are to press ahead with controversial proposals to extend Leeds’s Cottingley Springs gipsy and travellers site amid fears they could be creating a ‘ghetto’, reports the YEP. The paper

South Leeds roundup: Travellers, Middleton Park and Holbeck Cemetery

Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making South Leeds tick this week on the area’s websites, blogs and on Facebook: Sites in Beeston, Holbeck, Middleton and Belle Isle were considered by the city council for potential traveller sites, alongside the existing Cottingley Springs, a council report has revealed. The Friends