What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (28 July 2024) looking at the park’s trees and butterflies. The land that used to be the “Old Nine” of the municipal golf course at Middleton has in recent years been planted with specimen
Local campaigners are appealing for help to count the number of trees recently cut down along the local M621 motorway, to hold National Highways to account for their heavy-handed operations. The past couple of years (since summer 2022) have seen National Highways – the body who oversee the motorway network
Leeds City Council is undertaking work to trees in Cross Flatts Park to address the threat of ash dieback disease, a fungal infection that is killing ash trees across the UK. The council has commissioned TreeSaw, a professional tree service company, to carry out the works, which will involve the
Residents, businesses, and community groups now have the power to green their neighbourhoods, thanks to a new council partnership with Trees for Streets. Leeds City Council has chosen to pilot the National Street Tree Sponsorship scheme in the city this year, with the purpose of unlocking urban greening and getting
A survey of trees in Cross Flatts Park has revealed that up to twenty mature ash trees will have to be cut down in the coming months. A further forty will have to be cut back. The trees are suffering from a highly destructive fungal disease called ‘ash dieback‘, which
Network Rail has announced that it is to carry out “vital vegetation management” work between May 2023 and March 2024 along the railway between Ardsley tunnel and Leeds on the Wakefield line and is holding two information events to explain the scope of the work. They say the number, size
Following the felling of mature trees by Highways England in Belle Isle and by the Canal & River Trust in Hunslet, South Leeds Life has learned that plans are being put into operation to remove all mature trees from parks in South Leeds, starting in Cross Flatts Park. South Leeds
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
Luxury bedmaker Harrison Spinks has committed to planting 200 trees at Sharp Lane Primary School in Middleton. One of Great Britain’s most innovative bed manufacturers, Harrison Spinks, has enhanced its sustainability credentials further by planting 90 native British broad leaf trees at Sharp Lane Primary School yesterday (19 March 2020).
Dozens of volunteers of all ages got digging together during January 2020, planting 2,000 saplings across Hunslet – in what is planned as the first phase of a major tree-planting initiative across south Leeds. Over five days, the volunteers planted the trees on the edge of a number of local