What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A new planning application has been submitted to change an unused residential caretakers building at 1 Sydenham Street, off Domestic Street in Holbeck, to office use and counselling and education/training support services use. At first site this sounds pretty innocuous until you start to dig a bit deeper. The applicant
Forty residents came along to St Matthew’s community centre on Friday (8 November 2013) to discuss local issues with their MP and local Councillors. The agenda was set by residents as they were invited to record issues in three categories: good things about living in Holbeck, problems and things
Rubbish, young people, the census and South Leeds Life were all on the agenda when the Council’s Inner South Area Committee met last night. The committee, made up of our nine ward Councillors, met at St Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck. Prostitution was the first topic of debate. It
Local issues including prostitution and vandalism in Holbeck were discussed at a Voice of Holbeck community meeting in Cleveleys Court. PCSO Nick Smith of Holbeck Neighbourhood Policing Team gave an update on the local policing priorities of prostitution around St Matthew’s Street and Pleasant Street and thefts, trespass and damages
A local councillor has said she is determined to raise the issue of prostitution in Holbeck higher up the political agenda in Leeds. Beeston and Holbeck councillor Angela Gabriel said that the issue of prostitutes congregating in the area near St Matthew’s Community Centre and Domestic Street was a complex one