What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 22 February 2016: Retrospective application for detached garage to rear 165 Old Lane Beeston Leeds LS11 7AQ Ref. No:
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 8 February 2016: Change of use of office building to continued use as school Phoenix House Global Avenue Beeston
Collections of brown garden bins across Leeds will re-start soon. Following the winter break, the fortnightly brown bin collections will resume on Monday 29 February 2016. Collection days remain the same and can be checked on the council’s website. You can also download a handy calendar to remind you of your collection schedule. Using brown
The controversial planning application to convert the former Ice Pak factory in Beeston is to be discussed by the council’s South and West Plans Panel next Thursday (18 February 2016). The application to create a community building including sports hall and prayer room was submitted by Aspiring Communities in October
Leeds City Council has been looking at options for the future of Old Cockburn Sports Hall in Beeston. A report to today’s Executive Board (10 February 2016) proposes the transfer to the building to the Hamara Healthy Living Centre on a 25 year peppercorn lease. Old Cockburn Sports Hall was
Starting from today we will be publishing lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 25 January 2016: Change of use from Class A1 (shops) to Class A3 (restaurants & cafes)
Last Wednesday (13 January 2016) Hannah Begum, the Children’s Lord Mayor of Leeds, addressed the full Council meeting at Leeds Civic Hall. Hannah was joined by Faisal and Tahera, fellow pupils at Hunslet Moor Primary School, and put forward her proposals for a Global Families of Leeds Project. Her idea
Two pieces of public art have been commissioned as part of a £200,000 sprucing up of Dewsbury Road in Beeston. Sites have been identified outside the One Stop Centre and at the bottom of Trentham Street and a budget of £10,000 per artwork allocated. The plan is to give a
A major clean-up operation is underway at Thwaite Mills museum in Stourton after it was caught up in severe flooding over Christmas. Thwaite Mills, and Leeds Industrial Museum in Armley which was also affected, will both remain closed to the public until further notice while officers continue to assess the
We received the following letter today: I’ve just read your piece in the South Leeds Life December issue. As a longtime Holbeck man I would like to know along with a lot of other longtime Holbeck residents where the new name of South Bank came from? I cannot find it