What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Never mind the Budget this week, it’s the massive cuts already coming our way in the Welfare Reforms that will hurt South Leeds. I went to the Inner South Area Committee meeting on Wednesday night. I haven’t written up a proper report because it was mostly rather dull. However, the
Tenants are to be at the heart of the new structures for managing council houses in Leeds. The Council have already decided that the three “ALMOs” – Aire Valley Homes, West North West Homes and East North East Homes – are to be merged into one organisation. A consultation, Your Home
The agenda has been published for the Inner South Area Committee which meets on Wednesday 20th March 2013, at 6:30pm. The meeting is being held at Beeston Parish Centre on Town Street (opposite the Co-op). The full papers for the meeting are available to dowload from the Leeds City Council
Did you know that despite the acute shortage of accommodation in Leeds more than 5,000 homes in the city have been empty for more than six months? A council report indicates that while many of the vacancies are in the traditional student areas of Leeds (Headingley and Hyde Park) and
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