What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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
Local Councillors Judith Blake, Kim Groves and Paul Truswell have welcomed a new signal-controlled pedestrian crossing on Ring Road Beeston next to the Urban Bike Park in Middleton. The crossing is the result of requests from local people for safer facilities at the current informal crossing point, and follows traffic
As a local resident of south Leeds, you will no doubt have seen the ongoing roadworks along the A653 Dewsbury Road. As well as being a thriving high street surrounded by housing, local businesses and facilities, the road is also a busy route into the city. The decision to carry
Hot on the heals of announcing a public consultation on M621 upgrades, Highways England have announced that six months of roadworks will commence this month in Hunslet. The agency will be installing a concrete central reserve barrier, improving safety barriers next to the verge and road drainage, between Junctions 3
Gas pipeline works will see Domestic Street in Holbeck closed to traffic for four weeks from Monday 7 August to Sunday 3 September. Northern Gas Networks are carrying out gas main replacement works. There are currently temporary traffic lights on Whitehall Road close to Dunelm Mill and the works will
Work will start shortly on a new road safety scheme on Dewsbury Road. You may remember reading about the proposals in this article last year. As locals and residents of south Leeds are well aware, Dewsbury Road is a key traffic artery in the south west of the city but
A section of Dewsbury Road will be closed between 9:30am and 3:30pm for five days starting on Thursday (7 January 2016). The affected stretch is the flyover slip road taking traffic coming from Tingley towards the Tommy Wass junction. A diversion will operate taking traffic to the next roundabout, where
Think back to April Fools Day. A light-hearted article appeared here about a Council sign which indicated that construction work was expected by ‘December 2012’. Shortly afterwards the sign was updated to read ‘2013’. Well, work is scheduled to start today, Tuesday (27 August 2013). This follows a landslip in
Today’s picture is taken from the roadside on the A639 in Stourton just before junction 44 on the M1. Look at the year construction is expected and then think about today’s date. Before this sign was put up there was one saying construction was expected in 2011 and that was