What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
With billions in economic potential and multiple nationally significant programmes advancing in 2026, Leeds confirms it is ready to move from vision to delivery this year. At the end of 2025, Leeds City Council launched an ambitious Economic Vision outlining the opportunity to generate £20billion in economic growth and create 100,000 new
The Royal Armouries has announced two significant funding awards from the Wolfson Foundation and Garfield Weston Foundation towards the installation of a Special Exhibitions Gallery at its Museum in Hunslet. The Gallery is the first element of the wider Armouries 700 plan, which, at 700 years since the founding of
You might or might not have noticed, but UKREiiF – the UK Real Estate Investment and Infrastructure Forum – came to town this month (21-23 May 2024). This is a massive sprawling annual conference for the UK property industry, running since 2022 at Leeds Dock. We – the 1,000 or
Senior councillors are to discuss Leeds City Council’s exciting new partnership with national, regional and local government to transform six of its neighbourhoods, helping to achieve its regeneration ambitions and deliver inclusive growth. The Leeds Transformational Regeneration Partnership is a 10-year programme of change and investment involving the council, central
Dazzling new artwork that is a mobile observatory takes LEEDS 2023 to the stars and back: Heather Peak and Ivan Morison’s ‘Moon Palace’ embarks on an epic tour of the city, inspired by Leeds-born, Father of Civil Engineering, John Smeaton A new commission from leading artists Heather Peak and Ivan
Leeds Dock hosts an afternoon of relaxing activities on Saturday (29 July 2023) ranging from yoga to paddleboarding. The event is part of the Leeds 2023 Year of Culture’s ‘My Leeds Summer’ and has been organised by Hunslet & Riverside’s Neighbourhood Host Karen Peters. There’s a chance to de-stress with
The Ropyal Armouries Museum, at Leeds Dock in Hunslet, has submitted new premises licence applications for the museum and New Dock Hall and these will go before the Council’s Licensing Sub-Committee on Tuesday (20 December 2022). The new applications became necessary after Royal Armouries International plc, the company that held
Light Night Leeds is the UK’s largest annual arts and light festival and returns this week on Thursday and Friday (13 & 14 October 2022). Whilst much of Light Night takes place in the city centre, here we highlight events south of the river. For the past 17 years, over
The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds is bringing back its legendary International Jousting Tournament for the first time since before the Covid-19 pandemic. This Easter bank holiday weekend, highly-skilled jousters from Norway, Portugal and the UK will compete in full armour to show off their horse riding abilities and courage.
Today’s heavy rainfall (Saturday 16 March 2019) in Leeds and across the region saw the River Aire full to the brim in Leeds city centre and along the Hunslet riverfront – but the communities along the river escaped serious flooding. From 2.30pm onwards, the river was recorded to be outside