What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A large branch has fallen across Barkly Road in Beeston this afternoon (31 August 2023). The branch of what is believed to be an ash tree fell across a Mercedes car, which did not appear to be badly damaged. Police closed the road, between Theodore Street/Oakhurst Mount and Wooler Street,
Leeds City Council are urging motorists to plan ahead for two consecutive weekends due to temporary closures on Crown Point Road during the day. From 8am to 6pm on Saturday 25 March and Sunday 26 March 2023 and again on Saturday 1 April and Sunday 2 April, Crown Point Road
Emergency works to a power cable mean that Sussex Avenue will be closed at its junction with Thwaite Gate (A639) from midnight tonight (20 July 2021). The close is expected to last until 3 September 2021. In a statement Connecting Leeds said: “Following exploratory works, National Grid are due to
Resurfacing work will be carried out on Old Lane in Beeston tomorrow, Wednesday 23 June 2021, resulting in a one way road closure with no access from the Tommy Wass junction. The works and road closure will take place between 9:30am-3:30pm, but is expected to be completed within four hours.
The bottom of Wesley Street is to be closed to traffic from Monday 4 January 2021 as work to create a new cycle lane is rescheduled to avoid congestion when Leeds’s mass Covid-19 vaccination programme starts. In a letter to Councillors seen by South Leeds Life, Nick Boras, Principal Engineer
A stretch of Dewsbury Road between Hunslet Hall Road and Jack Lane will be closed to traffic overnight between 8pm and 6am for eight days starting on Thursday 8 August 2019. A diversion will be in operation taking traffic via Tunstall Road, Hunslet Distributor Road and Jack Lane. There will
UPDATE: These roadworks have been moved back a week to coincide with half term when traffic flows will be lighter. The work will now start on Sunday 28 October at 7:30am and the road will remain closed until 5pm on Tuesday 30 October. The city-bound slip road off the
Resurfacing work will be taking place at the top of Cemetery Road in Beeston, near the junction with Beeston Road and Tempest Road this weekend (15 & 16 September 2018). The work means the road will be closed in both directions between the traffic lights at Beeston Road and Back
Walking along Domestic Street in Holbeck for the last couple of weeks took me back to the days when I was a kid living in the Tilbury’s (1950s/1960s). Very regularly, I used to go to the swimming baths on Holbeck Lane, across Domestic Street and down ‘Stink Bomb Alley’. I
Cardinal Road in Beeston will be closed to traffic next week (Monday 6 March 2017) as resurfacing work is carried out. The work will be carried out between 9:30am and 3:30pm and is expected to be completed by Thursday 9 March. Access for pedestrians and emergency vehicles will be maintained