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Leeds Storytelling Festival returns with a new programme celebrating the National Year of Reading: Leeds Storytelling Festival 2026 - Photo by Lian Furness

06 Feb 2026

Leeds Storytelling Festival returns with a new programme celebrating the National Year of Reading

Leeds Storytelling Festival will return from Saturday 14 February to Sunday 8 March, bringing a citywide celebration of stories especially for children and families.

Libraries

Blueprint for future of Elland Road land set to move forward: Elland Road neighbourhood visualisation

04 Feb 2026

Blueprint for future of Elland Road land set to move forward

An ambitious vision to guide the transformation of land around Leeds United’s iconic Elland Road stadium is set to go before senior councillors in Leeds next week.

Members of Leeds City Council’s executive board will be updated on the proposed final draft of the Elland Road planning statement, which sets out principles for what the future may hold for around 30 acres of land surrounding the club’s famous ground.

Planning Leeds United Regeneration

Long-serving foster carer appeals for more to open up their hearts and homes: MarieProcter

03 Feb 2026

Long-serving foster carer appeals for more to open up their hearts and homes

One of the city’s longest-serving foster carers who has given more than 100 children a better start in life is calling on others to follow in her footsteps.

Fostering Children's services

New social cohesion strategy to go before council leaders: Anti-discrimination posters

03 Feb 2026

New social cohesion strategy to go before council leaders

A new strategy outlining Leeds’s commitment to strengthening social cohesion across the city is set to be presented to council leaders on 11 February.

Equality Community safety

New five-year strategy is set to deliver the goods for Leeds Kirkgate Market: Market entrance

03 Feb 2026

New five-year strategy is set to deliver the goods for Leeds Kirkgate Market

Senior councillors will next week be asked to approve a five-year strategy designed to guide Leeds Kirkgate Market successfully into the 2030s – and beyond.

Markets

Leeds City Council Logo

03 Feb 2026

Final budget plans focused on improving essential and everyday services announced by Leeds City Council for 2026/27

Annual budget to be debated and voted on at full council meeting on 25 February

Council budget

Leeds City Council Logo

02 Feb 2026

Council holds first ever Antisemitism awareness week

Leeds City Council is holding its first Antisemitism awareness week for employees and partners in the city.

Equality

Region-wide consultation asks how best to maximise benefits of Mass Transit system: An artist's impression of a mass transit system in Leeds

29 Jan 2026

Region-wide consultation asks how best to maximise benefits of Mass Transit system

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

Transport

Unleash your inner superhero for the Lord Mayor’s charity: Insite artwork v1

27 Jan 2026

Unleash your inner superhero for the Lord Mayor’s charity

Unleash your inner superhero and show your secret superpowers to raise money for the Lord Mayor of Leeds Charity Appeal Just One Day event, which returns on Friday 13 February.

Lord Mayor of Leeds

Leeds City Council clarifies position on bin collections as new brown bin food waste trial announced: Cover photo caddy tipping into brown bin option1 full bin profile

27 Jan 2026

Leeds City Council clarifies position on bin collections as new brown bin food waste trial announced

No changes to overall bin policy as new trial service to begin in Wetherby and Collingham

Bin collections/waste services

Major apprenticeship fair returns this February: LARF 2026 3

27 Jan 2026

Major apprenticeship fair returns this February

The largest apprenticeship recruitment fair in the North of England is returning to Leeds’s first direct arena on Wednesday 11 February.

jobs and skills