What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A new city centre hotel could be created if plans are agreed for the conversion of an office building. Planning permission is sought for a 131-bedroom Premier Inn at Verity House, on Canal Wharf in Holbeck. Parent company Whitbread Plc said the hotel could accommodate 57,000 guests a year, generating some
Councillors on the City Plans Panel welcomed proposed changes to Phase 2 of Platform’s mixed use developement at Sweet Street West in Holbeck at their meeting last Thursday (8 May 2025). The site is subject to a hybrid planning consent, with full approval for Phase 1 comprising three residential blocks
A planning application to build 164 flats on a site near Leeds Dock in Hunslet has been deferred because of the lack of ‘affordable housing’ and greenspace in the scheme. The project to build an 18-storey block on a small site on Sayner Lane, behind the University Technical College, was
Councillors on the City Plans Panel approved planning permission for the first residential blocks at Aire Park, the development on the former Tetley brewery site, at the meeting on 13 March 2025. This was a ‘reserved matters’ application looking at the detailed plans, following ‘outline planning approval’ covering the entire
Vastint have submitted a planning application to erect four temporary Padel courts at Aire Park on the former Tetley brewery site in Hunslet. The courts, which will be run by Padel Social Club, are planned to last for five years after which they will be replaced by permanent development as
Councillors on the South & West Plans Panel voted to approve a planning application to install floodlights on the new artificial pitch and tennis courts at Cockburn School in Beeston today (6 February 2025). The football/rugby pitch will be covered by lighting on six 15m high poles, whilst the tennis/netball
Following the withdrawal of the planning application to change the use of 112 Grovehall Drive to accommodate a children’s home, it has emerged that the care company which submitted the application is to sue the property owner, convicted sex offender Abid Mahmood Younis. As we reported previously QASA Care Services
UPDATED: the planning application for 112 Grovehall Drive has now been withdrawn. In a statement, Councillors told South Leeds Life: “It shouldn’t even need saying that someone on the sex offenders’ register shouldn’t be able to own a children’s’ home. “We’ve been working to get this stopped, and raising our
An application for planning permission has been submitted to convert a Victorian school building on Hunslet Hall Road in beeston into ‘conference and banqueting facilities’. The building, known as Hunslet Hall, has most recently been used by Leeds City Council as an area office for Adults and Children’s Services. The
Proposals currently being considered by council planners have been criticised by Leeds Civic Trust who say the changes to the building risk erasing the identity of this iconic building. As we reported in May, the owners of the former Tetleys brewery headquarters building, Vastint UK, have applied for planning permission