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Twelve years ago, the Planning Department was saying there was “gross deficiency in playing pitch provision” in our area . . .
n a now highly embarassing note dated the 11th February 1998, made in connection with the university’s objections to the inclusion of the former Grammar School cricket pitch within the UDP as an N6 Protected Playing Pitch, the Planning Dept commented as follows : :
The council responded to these objections, considering that there was a [...]
What the Inspector said when the Grammar School tried to get the N6 Protected status removed from its playing field
ack in the 1990s, Leeds Grammar School wanted planning permission to build on their cricket pitch in Hyde Park. But they had a problem in that the pitch had been given N6 Protected status in the draft Unitary Development Plan. So they appealed to the Planning Inspectorate at Bristol against the inclusion of the playing [...]
Royal Park School – the council thinks it’s in Harehills !
a href=”http://www.leedsleaders.co.uk/files/Vision_for_Leeds_v1.0.pdf”>”Vision for Leeds 2004 to 2020″ is a document produced by Leeds Initiative, a body which describes itself as “a public, private & community partnership for Leeds, led by the City Council”. According to their website, “The Vision for Leeds is a long-term strategy for the economic, social and environmental development of the city”.
On [...]
Message from the school
The local community has taken over Royal Park School in order to repair it, and to protect it from further vandalism. They have issued the following statement :
Save Our School
Royal Park Primary School was closed in 2004 by Leeds City Council.
On its closure our community was promised that it would be retained as badly needed [...]
Another Leeds University assault on our area
n yet another assault on Hyde Park and Woodhouse, the City Centre plans panel this afternoon gave it’s approval to a planning application from Leeds University to relocate the School of Law to a single site at the junction of Moorland Road and Belle Vue Road. It will mean the demolition of the [...]
Going after the student vote – part 2
Going after the student vote
Our Lib Dem councillors are trying to alter polling district boundaries and polling stations to enable more students to vote on or close to the university campus. If successful, their proposals would effectively disenfranchise many permanent residents. The first alteration would involve transferring voters from part of polling district HWD to polling district HWF. The Lib [...]
The road widening threat to Woodhouse Moor is back, and it’s called NGT
Last Thursday, the 18th June, Leeds City Council and Metro unveiled their plans for New Generation Transport (NGT), a scheme that would see trolleybuses running in leeds for the first time since 1928. The plan is to have three routes; the East Route, the South Route, and the North Route, with the trolleybuses running along [...]
Our councillors’ ideal resident
Last Summer, our councillors sponsored a DPPO (Designated Public Places Order) intended to ban anti-social drinking in public in parts of Little London and on Hanover and Woodhouse Squares. The DPPO was opposed by North Hyde Park Neighbourhood Association, South Headingley Community Association and Friends of Woodhouse Moor, on the grounds that street drinkers displaced [...]
HIGH-HANDED COUNCILLORS SILENCE OPPOSITION TO BBQs ON THE MOOR
I attended the recent INWAC Meeting on 2nd April, 09 and came away extremely disappointed by the way in which the meeting was conducted. There were a number of points that showed the behaviour of some INWAC Councillors to be unseemly.
1. The Chairman of the meeting, Councillor Monaghan, was curt to several members of [...]