What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Earlier this week I started writing an article about Leeds City Council’s current Site Allocations consultation ‘Your city, Your plan’. You won’t have seen it yet, as I haven’t managed to finish it. I read the Council press release and it looked pretty dry and full of jargon. I though
Leeds City Council is bringing its services to the streets of Holbeck with its new ‘Pop Up Hub’. The Hub is visiting the Recreastions every Wednesday in a pilot project to get services closer to residents. Services you can find at the Dewsbury Road Hub (formerly One Stop Centre), such
The Council have submitted a Planning application to build 25 new homes in the Garnets off Dewsbury Road. The 2/3 bedroom houses with gardens and off road parking will replace 76 back to back houses that were demolished several years ago. Since then the site has been vacant leaving a
Interview with Chris CEO of BITMO. By Kenneth Ingram, volunteer, at South Leeds Life. Q: What qualifications’ did you get Chris, when leaving School, College or University? I considered myself as a late developer. I didn’t do particular well at high school ended up with 4 O levels. Which at
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
New affordable housing is to be built by Unity Housing on the Parkwood estate in Beeston. The development of 18 two and three bedroom houses is on the site of maisonettes that were demolished some years ago. The plans work around a sloping site and a mature willow tree by
Progress on the council’s major housing project is being celebrated as the number of properties refurbished hits 500 and the fiftieth new build home is completed. A year and a half after the project started, the council’s partner sc4L have now revamped more than a third of 1,245 council houses
It’s a pretty straightforward question, but the answer is sometimes anything but. Leeds City Council has just completed its consultation to identify sites around the city but, perhaps understandably, not everyone is happy. And yet, if we don’t provide homes for our children and grandchildren, neighbours and friends and work
Private landlords who manage houses in the Holbeck area are being invited to the area’s first landlords forum to find out how they can work together to improve their community. The first forum will take place later today, Wednesday 4 March 2015 between 6pm and 7:30pm at St Matthew’s Community
Local residents are fighting for a green community space to be included in a new housing development in the heart of their neighbourhood. The Garnets – a terraced neighbourhood just off Dewsbury Road in Beeston Hill – saw 78 houses demolished in 2012, at the end of a controversial regeneration