South Leeds Life

A public meeting has highlighted how a £2 million boost will help restore Middleton Park to its former glory. Alan Shaw, secretary of The Friends of Middleton Park group, gave a presentation on the detailed proposals surrounding the Heritage Lottery-backed regeneration scheme for the park. Mr Shaw told the meeting – at Middleton Methodist Church [...]

Wednesday July 27th will be a busy day for events in south Leeds. In Cottingley, there will be a health event at Cottingley Towers offering a cooking session, health checks and advice, hand massage, henna and health checks. There will also be a free light lunch at the event, which runs 10.30am-2pm. Just turn up [...]

The fight to reopen South Leeds Sports Centre will continue at Holbeck Gala on Saturday when campaigners will kickstart a petition with a simple message: “Reopen our centre for the summer holidays.” Members of the Splashback campaign last night agreed to their next wave of activity, which will include the launch of a new petition, [...]

An initiative to help attract investment and support regeneration across a large area of South Leeds has been welcomed by the chairwoman of a local residents’ forum. Chair of the Beeston Hill Residents Voice community group Freda Bates told a recent meeting that the Investment Partnership for South Leeds aims to attract public and private [...]

A community cafe run by local residents could open at a planned new divisional headquarters for Holbeck police. A recent packed public meeting was told that multi-million pound proposals to transform the old greyhound track site off Elland Road would be in an ideal position to offer a better service to local residents, and would [...]

In the region of 30 to 40 tonnes of rubbish have been removed from Beeston’s bin yards as part of a major clean-up operation. Many of South Leeds’ bin yards have become dumping grounds for household waste over the years – but residents attending a meeting of Beeston Hill Residents Voice this week were told [...]

South Leeds residents will this week be able to have their say on plans for a new police headquarters near Leeds United’s Elland Road ground. West Yorkshire Police plans to develop the site at the former Greyhound Stadium at Elland Road, Beeston, into a new divisional headquarters and custody suite. The site is currently used [...]