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Council Housing Growth Programme is building homes and changing lives: Armley-63

10 Jun 2025

Council Housing Growth Programme is building homes and changing lives

A new report has set out the impressive results being achieved by Leeds’s Council Housing Growth Programme (CHGP) – and the plans that mean the city is perfectly placed to keep building on that success.

Housing

Leeds is on the right road as new minibuses provide vital support service: Minibuses 1

06 Jun 2025

Leeds is on the right road as new minibuses provide vital support service

Leeds City Council has underlined its commitment to fairness and opportunity for all by making some impressive new additions to its fleet of accessible minibuses.

Council services Compassionate city

Plantastic Audrey becomes Tropical World’s new big cheese: Audrey at Tropical World-2

05 Jun 2025

Plantastic Audrey becomes Tropical World’s new big cheese

A gigantic jungle plant which has been growing in Leeds for more than half a century has found the perfect new home after a monster move to Roundhay’s Tropical World.

The huge monstera, popularly known as a cheese plant, has been a resident in a stairwell at Leeds General Infirmary’s medical school since the 1970s, where staff affectionately named her Audrey.

Tropical World Parks and countryside Parks estates

New Leeds campaign takes stand against all discrimination: Anti-discrimination campaign

03 Jun 2025

New Leeds campaign takes stand against all discrimination

Leeds City Council is launching a new campaign taking a stand against all forms of discrimination.

This comes as the council is preparing a new Stronger Leeds Strategy 2025-30, outlining the council’s commitment to strengthening social cohesion across the city. It includes plans for addressing issues that impact on people’s sense of belonging and celebrating the city’s vibrant diversity.

Community safety Community groups Equality

Call for volunteers to help improve Leeds’s parks and green spaces: VoluteerTeamLeeds landscape

02 Jun 2025

Call for volunteers to help improve Leeds’s parks and green spaces

More people are invited to sign up for green space volunteering opportunities this summer, to mark National Volunteers’ Week (2-8 June).

Volunteering Parks and countryside

Leeds City Council Logo

29 May 2025

Relief for residents as court action helps turn the tide on anti-social behaviour

Court action and partnership working have made a positive difference to life in a Leeds community where crime and anti-social behaviour issues were causing concern for residents.

Housing Anti-social behaviour

Retailers reminded about upcoming June 1 ban on disposable vapes: vape image for press release

29 May 2025

Retailers reminded about upcoming June 1 ban on disposable vapes

Shopkeepers across Leeds have been advised to act now in preparation for the disposable vapes ban which comes into force on June 1.

Health

A660: Next stage of improvements to begin from Monday 2 June: A660 at St Michael's Road junction

28 May 2025

A660: Next stage of improvements to begin from Monday 2 June

Leeds City Council is to begin the latest stage of its £10.4m improvement works along the A660, improving safety for pedestrians and cyclists and helping speed up bus journeys between Headingley and the city centre.

Connecting Leeds Highways Transport

Public consultation launches to improve travel choices on A6110 Ring Road and A643 Elland Road: A6110 visualisation-2

28 May 2025

Public consultation launches to improve travel choices on A6110 Ring Road and A643 Elland Road

Leeds City Council is proposing to introduce new measures along the A6110 and A643 Elland Road which will make it safer and more accessible for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users.

Connecting Leeds Highways Transport

Grisly gadget is sure to get museum visitors talking: image00027

28 May 2025

Grisly gadget is sure to get museum visitors talking

A gruesome contraption used centuries ago as a brutal punishment for gossiping has gone on display in Leeds.

The draconian device, known as a scold’s bridle, is among a selection of objects newly on show at Leeds City Museum capturing some of the fascinating, lesser-known chapters in the story of Leeds.

Leeds City Museum Museums and galleries Arts

Museum takes time to pay striking tribute to city’s classic clocks: image00030

27 May 2025

Museum takes time to pay striking tribute to city’s classic clocks

Beautiful vintage clocks will take museum visitors in Leeds on a journey through time this week.

The carefully curated collection of historic timepieces will be going on show at the Leeds Discovery Centre during a special family workshop exploring the art of clockmaking while looking at some of the museum’s huge collection.

Museums and galleries Arts