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One of the slightly odd habits you pick up as a councillor is checking grit bins as you walk around... It's that time of year when we need to make sure everyone's grit bins are ready for the winter. If you have one near you, can you try and check it for us and let us know if it needs refilling? You can just reply to this email. Thank you!

Here's the latest update. It's great the contracts are openly sharing any challenges. If these lead to any slip or change to the timetable we'll be sure to let you know, but so far that isn't the case! "Last week we continued work on the manhole installations in the roundabout centre. Manhole 6 is installed up to the concrete lid, with brickwork to be installed. Further oversized pipework excavations are taking place, along with installation of foundations. Ducting excavation

It's not every day you get approached about a charity fundraiser that also celebrates our ward in its entirety, but today is the day! Louis is raising money for his local Scout group by running every single street in the ward. Wow! You can check out his fundraiser here We'll be helping partly by providing a map and a list of streets in the ward which we can list from memory by now... Here are Louis' own words: " The Ward is very large and covers parts of Headingley, West Par

We're so lucky to have this great community centre and cafe in our ward at 55 Bedford Drive. We have many surgeries and community meetings there. And we're pleased to share some events they have planned for the public. On the 20th of November first up, 'Inn and Out at the Top with Neil Hanson' which promises to be a hilarious talk about life in Britain's highest inn back in the 1970s and 80s - an appropriate topic to be hosted by former pub the Welcome In! And then on the 26t

Here's the latest update from Eric Wright, the contractors working on Lawnswood roundabout. As usual, if you're experiencing problems let us know. Also, we have raised concerns about speeding in some neighbouring roads - you may see the rubber encased wires across roads monitoring traffic and speed levels: "Last week we completed the surfacing works around the roundabout centre. Yorkshire Water have inspected the manhole, this is progressing well. Our sub-contractors Civcon h

The next set of community meetings we do with the police are next week. Come along to discuss and hear about what the police are doing to tackle local crime. We always attend these when we can but please note we can't attend on Wednesday as it clashes with a full meeting of Leeds City Councillors. So if you're planning to go to chat with us please contact us instead! Alternatively, see you at the Welcome In on Tuesday or come to one of our surgeries (Friday 2-3pm at Meanwood

This is not in our ward but is very well used by lots of Weetwood residents so we thought we'd share the latest. For those who don't know; there's an excellent route from Woodhouse Ridge to Hyde Park corner that saves walkers a lot of time. However, the segment from the ridge to Cumberland Road is currently blocked. That's because the wall has become unsafe. The wall is privately owned and the owners are trying to solve this as soon as they can. We can't give more specific ti

For the first time the Santa Dash is coming to Headingley. The 3k run ties into the Kevin Sinfield 7 in 7 challenge. It starts at Leeds Beckett University and finishes at the stadium. Thankfully this means it's a downhill route, which Izaak is grateful for as he has just signed up. The dash starts at 2 on Sunday 7 December. There will be road closures as follows: Road closures around the start at Church Wood Avenue will be implemented from 13:15 on the afternoon of the event

It's an Otley Run heavy newsletter today. Sorry about that! The Golden Beam (Wetherspoons) have applied for a change to their licence, to enable them to have Otley Runners. We are supporting the objection written by Headingley Councillors Jonathan Pryor and Abdul Hannan, also supported by Alex Sobel MP. Please do give it a read. We've also shared The Golden Beam's application underneath. Please consider sharing your own views - for or against, all views and experiences are wa

We have found regular updates from the team doing Lawnswood roundabout to be very useful, so we asked the Highways team to do the same for the broader A660 work from Shaw Lane down to St Marks Road. Here's an update we received today. We hope it's useful: Please find below the latest update regarding ongoing construction works along the A660 corridor, including Otley Road, Headingley Lane, and Woodhouse Lane. These works will be taking place over the next two weeks across Sec