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John Lawrence on the community’s bid for Royal Park School

want to tell you where we are in with our bid. The occupation made a lot of things happen. It galvanized the public support which we knew we had, but it also brought new people and fresh ideas to the campaign. We have consultants including an architect, a building engineer, a sustainability engineer and [...]

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”.
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Another overwhelming vote to retain all three Leeds Girls High N6 Protected Playing Pitches

onight’s public meeting was attended by over a hundred people and culminated in an overwhelming vote in favour of a resolution to retain all three Leeds Girls’ High Protected Playing Pitches and for Leeds City Council to purchase them at playing pitch value (about £12,000). There were no votes against and only three abstentions. This [...]

What a joke !

t’s been announced in today’s Yorkshire Evening Post that the Grammar School at Leeds is offering to let the public use Ford House Garden for the next ten years. The offer is conditional on the school being given planning permission to build on the main school site Protected Playing Pitch. In 2007 we rejected an [...]

Public meeting on the Leeds Girls High planning application – 7pm Monday 7.12.09 at City Church

he Grammar School at Leeds has now re-presented its planning applications for the Leeds Girls High site. These are practically the same as the ones rejected by the community a year ago, but with a few minor changes. The effect is still the same : building development on the Protected Playing Pitches (the pitches have [...]

Public meeting about the anti-social behaviour caused by residents of Devonshire Hall

few weeks ago, a young man urinated in public on Cumberland Road. It happened early in the evening just a few feet away from me, well before you’d have thought someone his age would be the worse for drink. So when it was announced that there was to be a meeting to discuss anti-social [...]

The special relationship

This afternoon I went to the Civic Hall to a meeting of the city centre planning committee to object to the planning department’s handling of an item on the agenda – an application from Leeds University to build a massive warehouse-like building on the former Grammar School Protected Playing Pitch. The planning officer with responsibility [...]

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