What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Councillor Paul Truswell told a meeting in Middleton on Friday that Leeds City Council is looking at re-designating properties to help tenants affected by the Bedroom Tax. From April households who are deemed to have too many bedrooms will face a reduction in their Housing Benefit of 14% – 25%.
Dozens of community groups from South Leeds headed to the Civic Hall on Wednesday for an evening of celebration. The event was organised by the Councillors of our three wards: Beeston & Holbeck, City & Hunslet and Middleton Park. Groups that had received funding from the Inner South Area Committee
Brown garden bin collections will resume this week following the winter suspension of the service. Using the brown bins is an effective way of keeping garden waste out of landfill; helping to save money and cut carbon emissions. The bins can be filled with grass and hedge cuttings, fruit which
Caroline McNeill, Volunteer Officer at Skelton Grange Environment Centre, has been in touch with news of an inspiring project: Can you look back fondly at a childhood spent playing in the great outdoors? Do you recall the fun of dangling from trees? Or the unimaginable thrill of coming across some
The Westwood Community Association have organised a welfare benefits surgery to help residents facing changes in the benefit system. The event is being held on Wednesday 14th March at Westwood Primary School on Bodmin Garth, Middleton. You can drop in at any time between 5:30 and 8:30pm. Staff will be
There was a great turnout for the latest community clean up organised as part of the Love Beeston? Clean Beeston! campaign on Thursday. About twenty local people teamed up with thirty pupils, parents and teachers from Park View Primary Academy (formerly Cross Flatts Park Primary School) and staff from the
Thirty people attended a meeting organised by South Leeds Life last night to hear about the history of Stank Hall Barn and discuss what could be done to preserve it. As the meeting progressed, led first by Frank Goddard from Beeston Local History Society an then added to in discussion,
Leeds City Council has organised a special open day to help gay and lesbian people learn more about fostering and adoption. The open day is being held on Tuesday 5th March, from 7:00 to 8.30pm at South Leeds City Learning Centre on Gipsy Lane in Beeston (part of the Cockburn
Martyn White ruminates on his experiences in Leeds Libraries … Not ordinary dogs, but carved stone dogs. They are on the staircase in the Central Library on the Headrow in Leeds. The library building is an old building, along with the art gallery which is alongside. The architecture is very
The Parkwood estate in Beeston can be forgiven for thinking that it’s been forgotten. It lies half a mile down a winding road between the railway track and the golf course. But yesterday a range of agencies decsended on the estate to help residents spruce it up and give it