What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
CITU’s Climate Innovation District is the place to be this summer with its newly landscaped summer gardens in full bloom and Piglove by the River, one of Leeds’s most popular pop-up beer gardens, re-opening with a new indoor space ready to welcome even more visitors to this oasis of calm
We reported last week on a mysterious outflow that was poisoning vegetation along the River Aire towpath, following investigations by Leeds City Council the culprits have come clean and the sludge has been stopped. Campaign group Friends of the Aire reported that their had been discharges since November 2022 from
Hunslet residents and campaigners are crying foul, and demanding answers, about a mysterious liquid pollutant being piped onto the nearby River Aire towpath. Since November 2022 there have seen several incidents of an unidentified grey discharge flowing out of two large industrial pipes, covering the towpath and surrounding greenery. The
A stunning new bridge honouring the legacy of a man who died after being racially harassed was officially opened in Leeds yesterday (26 January 2023). The David Oluwale Bridge was hailed as a symbolic link between the city’s past, present and future as a ceremony marked work on the landmark
Leeds City Council has today (23 February 2022) issued an update on the impact of the storms which have hit the city in recent days. In the last week Storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin have brought extremely high winds of up to 75 miles per hour, and significant rain and
Work has begun to create a footbridge across the River Aire which will commemorate the lasting legacy of a man who drowned after being racially harassed. David Oluwale, who had travelled to the UK from Nigeria, was tragically targeted because of his mental health, homelessness and race. He died in
Since summer 2020 residents in the Riverside area have been reporting repeated dumping of rubbish in the River Aire adjacent to where they are living. A local resident who didn’t wish to be named told South Leeds Life: “Since August 2020, a business has been dumping numerous bin liners in
As I write this at the end of July, I was shocked and saddened to hear that six people in Yorkshire, within the five days of hot weather, had lost their lives by drowning. Fortunately for us, none were from Leeds and, therefore, we do not have grieving families in
Leading sustainable developer Citu has unveiled and now started work on its next sustainable ‘Live-Work’ house, adding to the growing typology of homes at the Climate Innovation District by the River Aire in Hunslet. Citu Design, Citu’s internal design team, has taken on board valuable lessons they have learnt during
Residents on the Hunslet riverside are accusing the Canal and River Trust (CRT) of “environmental vandalism”, turning the local riverbank into a “barren wasteland” after unannounced tree-felling along the River Aire this month. On 18 and 19 February a large team of contractors on barges, felled several dozen mature trees