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A few people have emailed us about opposing more night flights and the airport's breach of their conditions, so we thought it would be helpful to outline where we stand. Like you we live in the ward and can hear the planes at night. We care about this issue because of the public health impact and because of the principle that the planning conditions exist for good reason, and must be upheld. We do not support any move towards unlimited night flights at Leeds Bradford Airport.

Well done to everyone who took the time to comment on the Taylor's sports bar planning app - the final tally was 151 objections, 104 supporting Latest Lawnswood roundabout weekly update We'll be holding a public meeting with MPs on dealing with illegal e-bikes - ( book here ) We had a fantastic time planting one of the trees we funded with Friends of Beckett Park - thank you gang! Finally, over 200 people responded to our councillor's feedback survey. Wow!! We'll be replyin

A reminder that there is a Meanwood Beck flooding engagement event tomorrow, 4-6pm (drop in) at The Meanwood Institute. Worth going even if not at risk - lots of interesting information about natural works being done all up the Meanwood Valley Trail to help prevent flooding and improve biodiversity. Here's Izaak's notes from the first drop-in, last week: 🌊 Meanwood Flooding Engagement event, 5th March, Meanwood Institute Over last 2 years council have been studying 20 differ

Tomorrow we're expecting a big update on Labour Mayor Tracy Brabin's plans to bring West Yorkshire buses into public control (you can read more here ). In the meantime, we're really pleased that disabled pass holders across West Yorkshire will soon be able to travel for free at any time of day. The change begins in Wakefield from May this year, allowing the Mayor to test its impact before rolling it out across the region from April 2027. Tracy Brabin said: “Making travel free

We've pasted below the email we received from the Head of Planning earlier today. It relates to what we shared a couple of weeks ago in this newsletter. Do have a read of that for context . In essence, the airport want to avoid a proper and public planning process where all can get involved. They've tried it before and failed. But we have to go through the process. We're pleased that the council is making the decision to do a full call for evidence; we've called for this ours

There will be two public engagement events about flood risk from the Meanwood Beck. The events will be held at The Meanwood Institute (94 Green Rd, Meanwood, Leeds LS6 4LD) between 4pm-6:15pm: Thursday 5th March Thursday 12th March The events will be in a drop in format with the council team and partners to speak to residents about Property Flood Resilience, Surface Water Flood Risk and Natural Flood Management. We've spoken to the team having lobbied for some time for more s

In very short, Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) are now applying to alter their existing planning conditions to a 'noise quota' system whereby they could have more of the quieter flights at night. We don't yet have the application itself - it's coming in November - so the below information is based on what the airport have shared with us in a briefing. We have a lot of questions about this! And we're sure you do too. To reiterate our role; while councillors cannot control the pla

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We welcome a public inquiry decision which will limit the number of night-time flights allowed in and out of Leeds. This council decision...

There is a food pantry opening in the ward! Thursday 24th October marks the opening of ‘Vinnie’s Food Pantry’ next to St Vincent’s...

Our West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin is working with local bus companies to improve their services. Great work has been already been...

Over the last few years we've done a lot of work with school uniform exchange projects. They save parents money and help the environment...

The council Is issuing an enforcement notice against Leeds Bradford Airport, further to its previous enforcement for breach of planning...

We were very pleased that glass recycling collections started in Leeds on the 1st of August , this following on from other achievements...

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Labour Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin is progressing plans to bring trams to our region. She's aiming for work to start in 2028....