What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Local campaigners are appealing for help to count the number of trees recently cut down along the local M621 motorway, to hold National Highways to account for their heavy-handed operations. The past couple of years (since summer 2022) have seen National Highways – the body who oversee the motorway network
The final ‘super span’ gantry spanning both carriage ways of the M621 between junctions 2 and 2a is to be installed and road closures will be necessary through April and May as the foundations are created. National Highways have announced that they will require lane closures and some limited full
Two new overhead gantries will be set in place above the M621 in South Leeds during the next phase of work on major improvements to the motorway. National Highways is installing the super-span gantries – named as they span the road in both directions instead of just one – over
Ahead of the new Championship season, football fans and drivers in Leeds are urged to stay safe and pay attention to new road layouts on the M621. National Highways is warning road users not to drive into coned off areas after three incidents on the motorway within three weeks where
A congestion-easing scheme to create safer and more reliable journeys on the M621 motorway is moving forward with a new junction and further improvements near Leeds United’s football stadium. Towards the end of June, National Highways will permanently close the M621 junction 2a exit slip road, allowing the creation of
Work is set to start on Tuesday (13 September 2022) to clear vegetation from the roundabout at Junction 2 of the M621 (Elland Road / Ingram Distributor A643). This is part of the preparatory work before the main works, which include adding an extra lane to the roundabout and a
Highways England have been trumpeting their work along the M621 in Hunslet and Belle Isle to erect noise barriers, but the residents the barriers are designed to help are less than impressed. In a press release issued before Christmas the agency described the barriers as an “innovative noise and safety
The extension of a noise and safety barrier project for local residents between junctions 6 and 7 of the M621 is likely to go ahead, Highways England has said. In a letter to affected residents in Hunslet, Highways England Customer and Community Relations Manager Karen Gaunt wrote that extending noise
It’s with a heavy heart that I see once again the Parnaby estate in Hunslet must bear the brunt of further ‘development’ in the name of progress or sacrifice to the motor car. The eyesore of what looks like landscape open heart surgery at the bottom of the estate where
A man who was seriously injured when he was hit by a lorry on the M621 in Leeds has died in hospital. The 47-year-old man, John Rangeley from Beeston, was involved in a collision with an articulated lorry near to junction 3 at 5.02am on Monday (4 November 2019). He