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Latest news from the Forum - 24th January 2015

2/13/2015

 
St. Matthews Community Centre hosted the Holbeck Neighbourhood Forum on Saturday 24th January 2015. It was a lovely sunny day which brought out a few new faces and some regular members too. Thanks to Angela Gabriel and Adam Ogilvie we had a surprise to the agenda from the council Leeds Neighbourhood Approach. This is a hands on working group that helps support landlords and tenants with poor quality or empty houses in Leeds. Mark Ireland came to tell us more about the program and the success it's seen in Armley and other areas.
Dennis Kitchen - chair took us through the draft intentions which can be found under the meetings tab on this website.
These are taken from the Questionnaire which was carried out in the summer of 2014, (see the new's tab on this website).
Eve Tidswell (Friends of Holbeck Cemetery) and Board member announced we were successful for bringing in a planning consultant through a Bridging Grant from Locality. This will help us employ a specialist consultant to compile all the work we've done over the last two years into a brochure style document. This will be called the draft plan - then this goes out to everyone for a 6 week consultation (June and July this year)
We also had the news that the Matthew Murray site had been taken off the 'site allocation' list which is now 'unavailable' for housing. This was unfortunate news to the forum as Matthew Murray site has always been a potential space for mixed purpose such as sustainable housing, a recreational area and all location for improvements. The forum agreed to write a letter to the head of planning stating the ideas and intentions for the space in support of the plan. Dennis suggested visiting the Lilac housing in Bramley; low cost ecological housing for inspiration.
The community projects group will be organising more exciting events in the near future so keep watching this space!
Date and time of next meeting is Saturday 25th April 2015.

Brown Lane East News

2/13/2015

 
Keepmoat are well on track to complete the development by the 24 February 2015. ·        
The 10 local operatives are still working for Keepmoat and 6 will continue working locally for them on completion of the Unity development .

· Delays have arisen as a result of issues with the service providers but these have now been resolved and gas and electric is now available to every property.

· After advertising the properties in the Leeds Homes Magazine, the properties have all now been let and the prospective new tenants met at an event on 10 January at the Holbeck Working Mens Club and where introduced to Cllrs Gabriel and Ogilvy, the Holbeck Neighbourhood forum and Jeremy Morton editor of South Leeds Life. The event went really well and was a great opportunity for all to meet and greet.
Link to the published article is here:
http://www.southleedslife.com/new-unity-tenants-welcomed-holbeck/

 

Local school children invited to view new houses

2/13/2015

 
PictureYear 3 Children from Ingram Road Primary School - photograph Lucy Potter
Social housing and construction company, Unity Homes and Keepmoat, have been building the new houses on Brown Lane East site. The space used to have back to back houses but were knocked down around four years ago. Since December 2013 work started on the ground to build 42 brand new properties to overlook Holbeck Moor.
Both Unity and Keepmoat have
both been actively involved with the Holbeck Neighbourhood forum and with the local school. Back in June 2014 the children from Ingram Road Primary school were approached by Unity to come with a name for the new houses. Wayne Noteman Regeneration director from Unity said
'I thought it would be a fun task for the pupils to work on. Something that would involve them as part of the development and give them ownership within their community'.
The children researched their area and selected a number of different names. The names were then sent to Unity offices and the names were voted on. The winning name came from Oak Class (yr4/5) this was 'Harding Villas'.
At that point the foundations had only been laid but then in December 2014 the first show home was prepared and the school children were invited to see, along with other members of the community.
The link to the published article can be found here
http://www.southleedslife.com/hands-harding-villas/




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