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Leeds City Council has released new visuals showing how Dawsons Corner will look once major upgrade works to the busy junction are complete. The improvements aim to reduce congestion, improve safety and create better routes for all road users on this key gateway.

Leeds City Council has introduced camera enforcement at two existing School Streets to improve compliance with traffic restrictions and support safer and more sustainable travel. 

** News release issued on behalf of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in partnership with Leeds City Council **

Over four weeks starting on Monday 28 July 2025, road repairs and resurfacing works will take place on the Stanningley Bypass, as part of the £44.179m Dawsons Corner and Stanningley Bypass improvement scheme.

Leeds City Bikes gears up for major expansion with next-generation e-bikes

A report to senior councillors outlines the good progress being made on the council’s ambitious Connecting Leeds transport strategy, but highlights that more needs to be done and more funding allocated to meet its aims. 

Hundreds of thousands of antique plants and flowers carefully preserved for centuries will be given new life thanks to a fascinating environmental history project in Leeds.

The city’s vast collection of precious herbarium sheets was collected by botanists and horticulturalists over the past 200 years, with many of the fragile plants gathered in parks and grassland in east Leeds.

Stored at the Leeds Discovery Centre, the plants are now set to be studied by people living and working in the same area where they once grew, connecting their communities and ecosystems through time.

A new report has highlighted promising results being achieved by work in Leeds to improve people's health through better housing.