What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A pioneering new Leeds service designed to avoid unnecessary admission to hospital or residential care and to support people to leave hospital sooner opened its doors to patients this week. The South Leeds Independence Centre is the city’s first intermediate care unit, providing 40 community intermediate care beds. The centre,
My photo shows the outside toilets for the old cottages still standing on Town Street. The cottages where built on instruction from Ms Maude to house workers who worked in the park. People were poor in the 1800s, especially park & cemetery workers. When Ms Maude died, she left Middleton
A report to the Council’s Executive Board this week indicates that reported domestic burglaries have reduced by 30% over the past year. The figures for South Leeds show a mixed picture. There has been a 6% reduction in Beeston & Holbeck ward, but burglaries in Middleton Park ward have increased
The Executive Board of Leeds City Council is considering a new Council Lettings Policy at its meeting today. The Lettings Policy clearly has implications not only for the thousands of applicants on the Council’s waiting list but also for those living next or near to Council housing and to communities
On the packed agenda for the meeting of the Executive Board this Wednesday is a report to approve the start of a process which could lead to the transfer of the South Leeds Youth Hub to a not for profit organisation. The Hub was developed on a small part of
Wade’s Charity owns a significant amount of land and property in Leeds, including Middleton Park, Gott’s Park, Snake Lane Recreation Ground, Woodhouse Square and Gott’s Mansion. The Council leases a number of these facilities on 999 year leases with managerial and maintenance responsibility. This partnership has helped meet the charity’s
Over 1,000 people marched against the Bedroom Tax in Leeds on Saturday. The march was organised by Hands Off Our Homes who have been holding meetings in heavily affected areas throughout Leeds and is building mass Bedroom Tax resistance. The protest attracted a diverse range of participants from the elderly
A public consultation exercise over creating the city’s first major park and ride scheme at Elland Road could begin next month. Senior councillors in Leeds will debate the proposal to introduce the scheme at the executive board meeting to be held at Civic Hall next Wednesday. Should they give approval,
Campaigners opposed to the Bedroom Tax will march in Leeds this Saturday. The group Hands Off Our Homes have organised the demonstration and expect 1,000 people to join them. The so-called “Bedroom Tax” is a reduction in Housing Benefit for households who are deemed to have “too many” bedrooms. It
The Get IT Together project, a partnership with Citizens Online and BT, supported by Leeds City Council and the Nominet Trust is looking for volunteers with basic computer skills. Following training they will then help run basic IT sessions for people who have would like to get online for the