What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Citu unveils first CGIs for pioneering energy efficient Citu Home as it forges ahead with UK’s first low carbon urban neighbourhood Sustainable urban developer Citu has unveiled the first CGIs and detailed designs for its ground-breaking Citu Home – a new timber framed housing system which will create one of
Leeds Federated Housing Association has applied for planning permission to build 18 new affordable homes on vacant land off Acre Road in Middleton. The plans include 2 four-bedroom houses, 8 three-bedroom houses and 8 two-bedroom houses. Every house will have its own garden and two off road parking spaces. The
Belle Isle TMO The Rosedales Patch Group meeting will be held on Monday 18 September 2017, from 7pm at West Grange Church.
Leeds City Council’s City Plans Panel will decide tomorrow (Thursday 27 April 2017) on a planning application to build new flats on Whitehall Road in Holbeck. The scheme, on the corner of Springwell Road would see a curved, stepped complex, rising to 16 storeys close to the railway line. The
Planning permission is being sought to build new homes on a former jam factory site on Old Lane in Beeston. Developers, Barmston, presented their proposals to Beeston Community Forum last Thursday (5 January 2017) where they were greeted favourably. A total of 58 houses are planned including two and three
You may be surprised to hear that I don’t watch a lot of programmes on Channel 5, but there was a very interesting film about housing, homelessness and poverty on this week. Fifty years ago the then newly formed housing charity Shelter sent a photographer, Nick Hedges, to document the
A new scheme called Homeshare is coming to Leeds and it is a really simple idea. The scheme matches younger people looking for an affordable place to live with an older person with a spare room who needs a helping hand at home. The Homesharer commits to give around 10
An initiative to improve housing standards and target empty properties is being extended in Holbeck. Having completed works to around half of the problem properties identified in the first phase of the scheme, the Leeds Neighbourhood Approach is now set to stay in Holbeck for at least another two years.
Decent, secure, affordable housing for all – meeting in Middleton Thursday 12 May This Thursday (12 May 2016) the Leeds housing campaign group Hands Off Our Homes is holding a public meeting to discuss what the Housing and Planning Bill means for ourselves and our communities. Please join us at
Canopy, the Beeston-based self help housing charity has won a World Habitat Award. Canopy shared the prize with Giroscope, a similar charity working in Hull. They are the first UK based winners for over a decade. Both organisations are pioneers in a movement of UK housing providers called ‘Self Help