Youngsters at West SILC in Stanningley have picked up road safety skills
Students from West Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre (SILC) have been taught how to stay safe near roadworks as CityFibre continues to roll out its full fibre project across Leeds.
West SILC, based in Stanningley, is a special school that caters for pupils with a wide range of complex learning difficulties and physical and mental health needs.
A CityFibre spokesperson said it met with pupils aged 10 and 11 to help increase road safety and self confidence and added:
“With CityFibre’s full fibre network build taking place nearby, it can be hard for the pupils to understand the necessity for diversions from their usual routines when traveling to and from the school. “
CityFibre donated print copies of the popular Cones series. Created by Yorkshire author Chris Madeley, the books bring traffic cones to life to teach young children what road workers do and how to stay safe when traveling near roadworks.
To further encourage the pupils, build partner O’Connor Utilities (OCU) has also provided a traffic cone for them to decorate so that it resembles one of the main characters in the book.
Kim Johnston, CityFibre regional partnership director,visited the school to meet the pupils, aged 10 to 11. She said:
“It was a real pleasure to see first-hand how important concepts, such as safety around roadworks, can be brought to life and made so engaging with a little fun and creativity.
“While we do everything we can to manage the build process as smoothly as possible, some disruption is inevitable for a project of this scale. Bringing the local community on board with us is crucial and we’re so grateful for everyone’s patience and support.”
Laura Atkinson, Leader of Semi-Formal, West SILC, said:
“Road safety is a major skill that we want our students to understand as a general life skill and this is something we have a large focus on in school. Being able to teach this in an interactive, fun and engaging way for the pupils was extremely beneficial.”
Primary schools and SILC’s in the Yorkshire region that would be interested in receiving copies of the Cones books to explore with their students can contact Kim Johnston here.
Leeds Bradford Airport has today withdrawn its controversial £150 million planning application for a replacement terminal building.
Airport chiefs are blaming ‘excessive delays’ and the decision to call in plans by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities after plans for a new three-storey building were approved by Leeds City Council on March 22, 2021.
The expansion plans for the airport have caused controversy since they were first outlined in 2020, with opposition including MPs and environmental campaigners.
With a seven-figure investment in the scheme so far, airport bosses today said they are not prepared to commit a further uncapped sum over an indefinite timeframe into a public inquiry process.
Artist’s impression of the new-look Leeds Bradford Airport terminal
Vincent Hodder, CEO of Leeds Bradford Airport, said the airport will instead turn its attention to building an extension to the existing terminal, which was previously approved by Leeds City Council in January 2019.
He said the proposals already granted permission to increase passenger numbers from four million a year to seven million a year.
Mr Hodder claimed the replacement terminal plans, which would have delivered a BREEAM excellent rated terminal building, would meet demand already approved under the 2019 consent, but in a more sustainable way. He added:
“It is with regret that we have made the decision to withdraw LBA’s application for the development of a new replacement terminal.
“As the travel and aviation industry continues to recover from the impacts of the pandemic, LBA needs to be able to respond to rapidly increasing demand within the next few years.
“I would like to thank everyone who has supported us in the planning process, from the general public to the business community and councils across Yorkshire. Whilst this is a setback for our airport and region, we remain committed to investing in LBA to be an outstanding, decarbonised, modern airport for the future.
“My team and I are optimistic about the recovery from the pandemic and about the future of Leeds Bradford Airport.”
Speaking at a Yorkshire business event in Parliament, Mr Hodder this week said that the message being given to passengers in Yorkshire by the House of Commons was to “go to Manchester” rather than travel from Yorkshire.
The airport said it will release more details of the extension scheme in the coming months.
Protesters put their message across at Leeds Civic Hall.
The decision was welcomed by environmental campaigners. Chris Foren, chair of GALBA, said:
“This is a victory for our climate and our communities – we are delighted that LBA has acknowledged defeat. It means that LBA cannot extend daytime flying hours nor remove night time flying controls. As they said in their own planning application, this means they don’t have the capacity to increase passenger numbers above 5 million a year.
“Make no mistake, this victory is down to the thousands of people who took action, donated funds and never gave up hope that we CAN make the right decisions today to build a better tomorrow. GALBA would like to say a massive ‘thank you’ to everyone who has backed our campaign.”
The response has been mixed on social media.
Leeds North West MP Alex Sobel welcomed the withdrawal. He said: “I’m pleased the airport is not proceeding with their application at public inquiry. From the start this was always about increasing passenger numbers and carbon emissions, not getting a new building. I hope the airport will enter discussions about reducing aviation emissions now.”
Another commenter said: “Environmental protesters get exactly what they were warned about… They’ve blocked a new energy efficient terminal and as predicted the airport will still expand via building the extension to existing building.”
Another added: “It’s been treated as a referendum on air travel. To be fair I don’t blame the environmentalists, their heart is in the right place, no matter how misguided. It’s Whitehall putting its nose in to stuff that doesn’t concern it. LCC signed it off. They know best.”
Bramley-based environmentalist Paul Chatterton said: “So new terminal plan scrapped, but don’t get distracted, The task ahead remains the same. To slow down the growth of passenger numbers. That’s the only route to a safe future. Well done @galba_action.”
The LBA Support Group, which was in favour of the new terminal, added: “Absolute hammer blow for region’s economy and future. ‘Levelling Up’ once again exposed. @LBIAirport will go ahead building the terminal extension for which planning was approved by Leeds council in 2019, those plans also allow the airport to grow to 7 million passengers a year.”
Leeds Bradford Airport plans – the story so far
Plans for the £150m Leeds Bradford Airport rebuild first emerged in 2019, with more detailed plans being published the following year.
The rebuild, plans stated, would include a new “state of the art” terminal, as well as new parking and access facilities, and had a target of 2023 for opening. LBA hoped the number of annual flights could increase from four million to seven million in the coming decades.
Plans were also included to modify flight time controls, and to extend the the daytime flight period, with a likely increase from five to 17 flights between 6pm and 7am.
The application claimed the current terminal – parts of which date back to the 1960s – is ‘dated’ and ‘inefficient’, warning it could lose passengers to nearby Manchester Airport unless the improvements are approved.
But the plans proved controversial, as many objectors, including climate scientists, transport experts and residents’ groups, warned such an expansion would contribute towards catastrophic climate change, as well as unbearable noise pollution for those living nearby.
During a pre-application meeting in January 2020, in which councillors were able to ask questions about early forms of the plans, protesters staged a ‘die-in’, during which they fell to the floor and lying still until the meeting was suspended.
Despite this, a full planning application was eventually submitted to the council.
Following a mammoth eight-hour debate on Leeds City Council’s city plans panel on February, 11, 2021, councillors voted by nine votes to five to agree to the expansion plans in principle.
Campaigners, as well as both Labour and Tory MPs, supported calls for a public inquiry.
On April 6, 2021, the then-communities secretary Robert Jenrick postponed making a decision on this request, giving no timescale, and leaving the future of the plans in limbo.
The owner of a Farsley restaurant says he has been inundated by people’s donations towards an appeal to help the people of the Ukraine.
Zulfi Hussain owns Deeva Restaurant in Farsley Town Street, and wanted to do something to help people suffering due to the Russian invasion.
He told West Leeds Dispatch that the response to his appeal for donations had been ‘amazing’, and added:
“It’s been a great community effort, we’ve had people dropping off donations and local companies like Hainsworth’s dropping off blankets. We’ve had tonnes of stuff.
“The first set of donations have gone over to Halifax and will depart tomorrow (Thursday) to reach the people who need them.
“I’d like to thank everyone for all your continued generosity and donations. Priority items now are medical supplies, first aid kits, baby formula, nappies, wipes, female products, and sleeping bags. We don’t need any more clothes for now please.
“We are open every day from 5pm. People are welcome to call in and help if they wish, and stay for a cup of tea and a chat.”
Zulfi, from Calverley, said Deeva has a good reputation for supporting good causes, and that through his Global Promise initiative, he’s helped raise over £7 million since an initial appeal to support tsunami victims in 2004.
West Leeds Amateur Rugby League Club are appealing for help to support plans for a new £130,000 community clubhouse which will ‘help restore pride in a forgotten area’.
They received planning permission in January to convert their existing portacabin changing rooms in Redshaw Road, New Wortley, into a permanent changing facility and community club annexe.
Their proposals include a kitchen, viewing area, toilets and storage area.
Sam Horner at the existing portacabin changing rooms in New Wortley. Photo: John Baron/westleedsdispatch
Sam Horner, a rugby league development officer for Leeds Rhinos Foundation, said the club already has £50,000 pledged from the Rugby Football League – but needs to secure match funding either through grants or through the community raising the money themselves.
“The new clubhouse will help provide quality facilities for all our teams. Our youth section actively takes youngsters off the streets and helps keep them out of trouble. They need a decent building.
“The new building will also help regenerate the area. It’ll be used as a hub for the community to bring people together, improve people’s health and wellbeing in a forgotten area. I’ve already had people asking me when bingo, which used to run in the former club next door, will be starting!”
Mr Horner, who is a trustee and founder member of West Leeds ARLFC, said he was speaking to nearby New Wortley Community Association about running educational courses for people living in LS12.
He is appealing for local businesses to donate materials and time to help build and kit out the new facilities. Mr Horner can be contacted on sam.horner@leedsrhinosfoundation.org.
Councillor Jim McKenna (Lab, Armley) is backing the proposals, and urged people to support the appeal. He said:
“The area is one of the most deprived parts of the city and there are few family friendly activities.
“They need the community to come together to support the club, which carries out vital work with youngsters, some of whom go on to make their way in the professional game. Armley councillors are also looking at where funding might be found to support this initiative.”
The club used to meet in the adjoining West Leeds Sports and Social Club until it closed. The building is now derelict and there are plans to turn it into offices.
West Leeds ARLFC is based next to West Leeds Sports and Social Club. Campaigners hope the new facility will help regenerate the area. Photo: John Baron
When WLD visited, the former club had clearly been vandalised and been used for flytipping.
Flytipping in the grounds at West Leeds Sports and Social Club. Photo: John Baron
West Leeds ARLFC have been running a junior rugby club for almost 25 years. They currently run teams from Under 7s to open age, for both males and females.
Hub: Swinnow Community Centre. Photo: Michelle Corns
By Michelle Corns
Swinnow Community Centre is a highly active community hub, situated in the heart of Swinnow, on Swinnow Lane.
Established in 1989, the building is set in a large, landscaped garden – complete with a covered fish-pond.
The interior comprises of a cheerful reception area with comfortable chairs and a large table for meetings or crafts and a spacious hall, which is perfect for youth groups, the line dancing and drama rehearsals.
Three years ago, Leeds City Council gave the centre a much needed face-lift and supplied new fixtures, fittings, and decor.
The centre hosts a wide range of activities and groups, such as The Invisible Pain Theatre Company (IPTC), Prince’s Trust, line-dancing, Irish dancing, youth groups and a food bank.
Lots going on at the centre. Photo: Michelle Corns
The centre caters for all ages too. Little ones aged up to five can attend the Dinky group, and there is karate for kids five and upwards, two youth groups for ages eight-16 and 11-15 and the Prince’s Trust prepares 16-25 year olds for employment. IPTC provide a children and adults’ session. There are also advice sessions – including debt and money advice with Money Buddies.
During the pandemic, the centre remained a vital lifeline in the community, providing a whopping 3,500 meals a week and food parcels for families and the elderly.
This was possible with the help of donations and a resolute team of 26 volunteers. They also set up a food bank and helped 27 families who had escaped violence during that period to set up home.
Additionally, they gave out 150 hampers for families and the elderly. They also provided activity boxes with the help of Seagulls and treats, for local children. Volunteers visited the elderly, making sure they were ok.
It may surprise you to learn that this lively centre is run entirely by a group of dedicated volunteers. This includes centre manager Yvonne Allman, who has been a volunteer since 2016 and has been in her current role for the last five years.
“No-one is salaried,” says Yvonne. “All staff – gardeners, cleaners, cooks and myself, are volunteers.
“We are under Pudsey ward, but Swinnow is a deprived area. We run a food bank and we do get walk-ins straight off the street. Park Spring school referrals, housing office referrals, even the police have referred people. We’ll signpost people who have moved into a new place and have no furniture or we’ll put out an appeal, we’ll help anybody.
“I find that if they can come here in summer they can sit in the garden and have a natter, anyone who comes here is offered a drink. They end up part of the family, we have been known to go out in the community and shop for people, raise issues with other services because someone is having trouble… this is what community is – looking after your neighbours, the kid down the street who is being bullied.”
The centre is short on volunteers since the pandemic and would like to appeal for helpers for their massive Jubilee Event on 4 June.
“We need people to help on the day, make and serve food, bunting, flags etc. We also want to appeal to local businesses – even if it’s just crisps for the kids,” Yvonne added.
If you would like to volunteer or find out what is on offer, search ‘Swinnow Community Centre’ on Facebook or e-mail: swinnowcommunitycentre@hotmail.com.
Can you help develop the community of New Wortley? Photo: John Baron/westleedsdispatch.com
Tower blocks in West Leeds will be among 1,151 flats across the city to benefit from an eco-friendly heating and hot water system which will also save tenants money.
Moor Grange Court and Norman Towers in Kirkstall and Wortley Heights and Towers in New Wortley have been earmarked by Leeds council as the latest recipients of ground source heat pumps.
The pumps use renewable energy by using pipes that are buried underground to extract heat from the ground.
A council report authorising the move says energy usage will be reduced by 30% in each flat, reducing fuel poverty and improving the efficiency and quality of homes for residents.
Carbon emissions for each block could be reduced by 70% each year.
Councillors on the decision-making executive board will next Wednesday consider the measures as part of a wider package of housing improvements across Leeds.
Previous tower blocks to benefit from the scheme include Queenswood Heights and Queenswood Court in Kirkstall, Heights West, Heights East, Westerly Croft and Westerly Rise in Armley and Rycroft Green, Rycroft Towers, Rycroft Court and Rycroft Place in Swinnow.
Kirkstall Valley Farm flooded last month. Photo: KVDT
A community run farm which was badly hit when Storm Eunice caused the River Aire to break its banks could be helped by an emergency grant next week.
The Kirkstall Valley Development Trust has applied for a £3,900 grant from Leeds council’s inner west community committee after around half of the Kirkstall Valley Farm site, situated between Kirkstall Road and the River Aire, flooded.
A report for councillors to consider says the farm needs a poly tunnel to aid growing and providing vegetable boxers, some of which go to people who are vulnerable. It adds:
“This is a key time for planting of crops and seeds and will impact on growing for the rest of the year.
“The need for this polytunnel is now urgent. This grant would allow them to build the polytunnel much quicker than anticipated and consequently [allow them] to keep growing.
“Some of the vegetable boxes they sell are subsidised and provide veg boxes for families using healthy start vouchers.”
Other projects councillors will consider funding include £9,000 towards this year’s Kirkstall Festival, £9,998 to Barca Leeds for a young people’s prescribing project in Bramley, and £7,600 for an art camp at Shire Oak Primary School in Headingley.
Projects also include:
£1,200 for summer holiday targeted provision in Armley, Bramley & Stanningley and Kirkstall wards.
£1,660 to Armley Basketball Project at Armley Leisure Centre.
£2,640 to the Inner West Gaming Club.
£8,221 for two family fun activity days and new activity equipment.
The inner west community committee meets next Wednesday at West Leeds Activity Centre in Lenhurst Avenue, Armley, at 6pm. The full agenda can be read here.
The committee is made up of nine councillors from Armley, Bramley & Stanningley and Kirkstall wards, along with community representatives.
Campaigner Faye Mitchell, her mum Carol, and family.
A Pudsey daughter is is encouraging people to dig out their dungarees and denim to help raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society.
Faye Mitchell has helped raise more than £53,000 for the charity last year with her Denim for Dementia campaign, which encourages workplaces, schools and care home staff to dress in denim.
She was inspired to make a difference by her mum Carol, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s nine years ago, aged just 64.
This year she’s aiming to take over Pudsey Leisure Centre’s main hall on May 21 and create a huge pair of jeans made out of pieces of denim donated by local people with messages of support or to loved ones who are living with the disease.
And Faye is taking her campaign one step further, by working with local councillors in Bramley, Farsley and Pudsey to make them more dementia friendly.
Faye says businesses and services like leisure centres in those communities can support this by featuring denim displays in their windows. She added:
“Becoming dementia-friendly means business owners undergoing a short session to raise awareness of dementia, be able to recognise the signs of it and how best you can help people living with the disease by understanding how it affects them.
“Hopefully businesses will feel more confident in dealing with people who have dementia and that people who have it are more confident going in to their local shop or leisure centre.”
Faye already has councillors Kevin Ritchie (Lab, Bramley & Stanningley) and Dawn Seary (Cons. Pudsey) on board to help with Bramley and Pudsey, and is meeting Amanda Carter (Cons, Calverley & Farsley) to hopefully get Farsley on board soon.
“Mum was diagnosed at an early age, and I wanted to raise awareness that it’s not just a part of getting old, younger people can be diagnosed with it. People in their early 30s can have it.
“I was probably a bit ignorant about it at first, I just thought she would be fine and she just might forget some names.
“It’s been a horrific nine years. She has now lost her speech, she can’t walk, dress herself or eat by herself. I never realised how cruel it was. It’s like someone’s sat there in a world of their own. I don’t know if she knows who I am, I sometimes get a smile from her.
“The really sad thing is that she’s not had a relationship with her grandchildren. I was pregnant when she was diagnosed.
“The fundraising is about trying to get some positivity out of all this and raising awareness at the same time.”
Last year Denim for Dementia raised £53,000 – a figure Faye says she’s “well chuffed” with – and 11 local schools have already added their backing this year. The campaign is already receiving backing from people all over West Yorkshire and beyond.
The mum-of-two last year teamed up with friend Clare Brooke, from Bramley, for a heartwarming video. It features Clare, 42, singing Neil Diamond’s 1979 hit Forever in Blue Jeans, interspersed with video footage and images of people living with dementia, as well as many who have died with the condition.
If your school, organisation, business – or individuals – want to get involved with Denim for Dementia or help in making Bramley, Farsley and Pudsey more dementia friendly, e-mail Faye on fayemitchell1@icloud.com, check out Denim For Dementia on Facebook or @FayeGMitchell on Twitter.
Bramley Mini Market proved a popular draw last month. Photo: Paul Abraham
Photographer Paul Abraham was on hand to capture the latest busy Bramley mini-market at Bramley Community Centre on Saturday.
The market caters for every taste, requirement and pocket, with stalls including hand-made items and gifts, toys, books, sweets and more! Here are Paul’s photos from the event:
Apart from the highly successful and renowned Intake High School (now known as Leeds West Academy), which has seen singer Mel B, actors Angela Griffin and Laura Carter study there, West Leeds in the 1970s was a barren area when it came to art in schools.
I’m sure there were many teachers who would have promoted art with vigour had there been more funding and educational inclination available.
My art education in primary school was cutting lemons in half, dipping the chosen half in to a saucer of paint and producing a poster of images of the inside structure of the said lemon.
Paul Abraham, speaking at Bramley Lawn.
I do remember a boy called Sean who painted a wool vee-necked sweater, not on canvas or paper but on the shocked boy who was wearing it at the time, much to the horror of the teacher and the hilarity of the rest of the class.
Art was considered elitist and for posh kids, not the inhabitants of the council estates surrounding our schools. One wonders at how much talent was never recognised, encouraged or nurtured over the years.
I find it constantly annoying how people from certain backgrounds and jobs are pigeon-holed as to what their interests are and what they “should” watch, read or listen to.
For a number of years I was a high-impact sport and fitness coach and because of my chosen choice of employment it seemed logical to many people that I must spend all my “leisure hours” listening to the “Rocky” themes, heavy rock and watching Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. In fact many hours were spent listening to some classical music (with some Abba and Queen thrown in for balance!) and reading photography or art books etc.
My photography is still influenced at times by Claude Monet, Turner and Constable.
Poetry and the lives of poets were never taught or discussed as there were never any after-class groups such as chess-playing, poetry or writing.
The only form of poetry were playground recitals starting “there was a young girl from Twickers” etc. But I was always intrigued about this area of the arts and recently my interest was intensified by accidentally finding a three-part series featuring comedian and TV host Frank Skinner and Scottish crime writer Denise Mina.
The series had the pair describing the friendship and lives of William Wordsworth (“I wandered lonely as a cloud” was the only line I knew of his!) and Samuel Leigh Coleridge (who I had never even heard of) including visits to specific areas where they had found inspiration.
The passion and emotion of Frank Skinner as he read certain poems had me immersed in an experience I never expected poetry to take me to, but it had. I now have a couple of poetry books to enjoy and who knows I may even try to write some poems myself!
My passions are photography and writing and I never expected either to feature in an arts newsletter but amazingly they have.
I had met the Arts & Minds newsletter contributor Fe at an art shop in Leeds Kirkgate Market and we kept in contact. She suggested I become involved with the Arts and Minds newsletter and invited me to a newsletter group meeting at a coffee shop in the Corn Exchange.
I admit I was worried that I would be out of my depth amid so many inspiring and creative people and how they would accept someone with a non art-educated background.
I had worried unnessaserally as everyone was so friendly and supportive and were very interested in how I use photography in mindfulness and stress-management.
The confidence I have gained from being involved with the Arts & Minds team has enabled me to move forward with my photography to the point where some of my images have been used in periodicals and on websites and I’ve also sold some of my mounted pictures at local arts and crafts fairs!
I hope in the near future to be involved with collaborations with authors, artists, poets and musicians. Their talents coupled with my images could be an interesting mix. Anyone interested?
My story is nothing special or unique, but I hope that it may inspire people in some small way to follow their “arty” dream either as a hobby or as a cottage industry.
Passion is what art is all about and age or background should not be chains to hold you back.
Here are the latest monthly money saving ideas from one of our Armley community reporter, who likes to be know as the ‘auld git’…
There’s nothing I’d like better than sharing a shower with a marine commando.
Unfortunately all I’ve got is ‘im indoors, and he just moans that our shower is not big enough.
I promised you, in my last update, how a commando shower could save you money.
Turn shower on
Wet body
Turn water off
Soap up body
Scrub
Turn water on, rinse
Turn water off
Result is a clean body, reduced water usage and cost of water, plus cost of heating water.
If you’ve got a couple of teenagers training them to shower like this could save you enough money to holiday in “very happy hotel” ever year.
I cooked chili in the slow cooker the other night. I used half the usual amount of meat ‘im indoors uses in his chilli dish. I also had a lot of fresh tomatoes, multi-coloured peppers and onions that I bought from a waste food project.
Our son and I had ours with plain boiled rice.
For those of you who remember children’s TV series The Magic Roundabout, Dylan the rabbit – aka our son – hoovered his meal up in one and declared it “yeah yeah dude” and ‘im indoors had chunky chips with chilli and responded when asked how was the chilli? “Really good, filling but not hot enough, needs more chilli.”
Later that evening he spotted the unused half of meat in the fridge. “I knew it weren’t right, that chilli. What ya gonna do with the meat you’ve wasted?”
Now, ladies, you’re saying to yourselves he must be good in bed …. I’ll get back to you all on that one. My reply to ‘im indoors was I thought I’d do bolognese or cottage pie. Or maybe throw it in the dustbin. God love him, someone’s got to…
Another good habit to get into is using secondary curtain liners. These are the separate off-white liners that can be hung up with your usual curtains in colder weather.
You could invest in a pair of thermal liners or use a set obtained from a charity shop. Either way you’ll begin to save money on your heating bills, put them away in summer and bring back out again in autumn. Win win. Closing curtains before sunset will also reduce heat loss. Don’t forget to close bedroom curtains before sunset too.
To sum up, close curtains, eat chilli and shower with a marine of your choice. Till next time, from ‘im indoors, ‘Dylan the rabbit’ and yours truly, the ‘Auld git’. Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.
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Household bin collections. Photo: John Baron/westleedsdispatch.com
This year’s fortnightly brown bin collections will start in Leeds from Monday, 14 March, with collections continuing through to December.
Last year Leeds council crews emptied 35,000 tonnes of garden waste from the 217,000 brown bins across the city – one of the largest free collections ing the country.
Brown bin collections are intended to help divert garden waste away from black bins and assist those homes with gardens that produce enough garden waste to justify a fortnightly collection.
The service complements other more environmentally beneficial ways to use/dispose of garden waste. These include leaving grass cuttings on your lawn, reusing garden waste by composting or creating piles for insects, birds and other local wildlife; which not only help the eco-system but the garden itself.
To further help residents with composting, the council is working in partnership with Great Green Systems to offer an exclusive 35% discount to residents on a range of composters, find out more here.
Excess garden waste can be disposed of for free, at all eight of the council’s household waste recycling centres which are open seven days a week, no booking required. Residents can find their closest centre here.
Residents can find out when their first brown bin collection date is by downloading the Leeds Bin App or by checking online.
Leeds City Council recently announced a raft of new measures designed to help residents deal with their waste responsibly.
