South Leeds Life

  Greenhouse, the multi award winning development situated in Beeston represents a new way of life and the community here is flourishing. On Sunday 2nd June from 12-4pm Greenhouse will be hosting a good old-fashioned neighbourhood get together for “The Big Lunch”. The Big Lunch is a national event and a very simple idea. The [...]

  The horrific attack in Woolwich yesterday has brought back memories of the 7/7 bombings for many of us in Beeston. Community leaders and residents are reacting as they did in 2005 to show solidarity with the victims and reject the use of religion to justify terrorist acts. Leeds Central MP, Hilary Benn issued the [...]

A local councillor has welcomed the announcement that a busy junction in South Leeds will benefit from new safety measures. A range of improvements will be made at the Junction 2 roundabout of the M621, which Councillor David Congreve (Labour, Beeston & Holbeck) has supported after a long fight for action to be taken. Currently [...]

The recently launched Hunslet Club & Parkside Rugby Academy now has an expanded programme of training sessions from pre-school through to year 9 at their facilities in South Leeds. These two clubs with long established roots in rugby league, having taught the likes of Jason Robinson (now Honorary Patron of the Academy) and many other professional [...]

    In April the Cross Ingram Area Residents Association had a meeting with Hilary Benn MP. The main topic of discussion was the delay in starting the housing PFI scheme for Holbeck and Beeston Hill; it was indicated that this delay was due to the current government. It was suggested that the group should [...]

PCSO Kirsty Johnson has been in touch to explain how we can all help dementia sufferers: As a PCSO (Police Community Support Officer) in Beeston, when I arrive at someone’s house I am expected to know exactly what to do, how to deal with a situation and which other agencies I can contact  for more [...]

Alisia Casper and her show Homolonius II – Lost In General is the latest exhibition at Basement Arts Project, Leeds’ smallest art gallery. Bruce and Debs Davies have turned the cellar of their terraced house into an arts space. Alisia Casper is a prolific artist, so on this occasion the pictures spill into the living room. [...]

  Local residents have successfully secured two new 20mph zones in Holbeck and Cottingley following road safety concerns. The Cottingley zone will be centred on Cottingley Primary School and will include all streets surrounded by Cottingley Drive and Elland Road. Traffic calming measures will also be installed on Cottingley Drive. The moves follow a campaign [...]

Beeston got a new Vicar last night when the Bishop of Ripon & Leeds conducted a special service at St Mary’s Church. Revd Lindsey Pearson was previously the Yorkshire Regional Manager of Christian Aid, and closely involved in supporting individuals, churches and communities to bring about change in some of the poorest parts of the [...]

Be careful of tradesmen who come to your door telling you that you need your roof or guttering doing quickly. There seems to be a spate of these people operating in Beeston just lately. We’ve had three in the space of a fortnight. The last one who came nearly hammered our door down, and was [...]