What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
Newly refurbished sheltered accommodation offering an independent lifestyle has been officially opened today (Tuesday 10 February 2015). Ingram Court in Holbeck has benefited from a substantial make-over by sc4L as part of the council’s housing regeneration project. Built in 1976, the building has now undergone a major transformation to provide
The tenants who will soon be moving into new housing on Brown Lane East in Holbeck were welcomed to Holbeck at an event at Holbeck Working Men’s Club on Saturday morning (10 January 2015). Unity Housing Association which has built the new properties invited new tenants to a meet and
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
sc4L, the consortium that is delivering the housing regeneration scheme currently transforming Holbeck and Beeston Hill have released figures showing their progress over the last 12 months together with a newsletter for residents. The figures show that they have completed refurbishments to 373 properties (including Little London) and demolished nine
Tenants have been officially handed the keys to their newly built council homes which are just some of the 1,000 properties being delivered as part of an ambitious drive to provide new council homes in the city. Leeds City Council leader Councillor Keith Wakefield had the honour this month of