Plans for major Leeds development go before Councillors thetelegraphandargus.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thetelegraphandargus.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
PLANS to build more than 150 houses on the former site of a college campus have been approved by Leeds City Council planning chiefs. Proposals to build 152 homes on the former Horsforth Campus off Leeds City College in Calverley Lane went before members of the council’s City Plans Panel for the third time. Plans for the site had been brought forward by the college along with Galliford Try Partners and Stonewater, and are made up of 100 per cent affordable housing. Blueprints had been kicked back and forth between developers and Leeds city councillors for months, with many elected members continuing to have concerns around the designs.
FUNDING to help provide laptops and tablets for primary school children has been approved by Guiseley and Rawdon ward councillors. The councillors approved a grant from their Covid-19 ward funds for schools to provide IT equipment for pupils without access to devices to help with their schooling. It is hoped that this equipment will be put to good use as part of ongoing studies and homework as well as enabling better home-schooling should the need arise again in the future. Cllr Pat Latty said:“We wanted to ensure that these Covid funds could be used right at the heart of our community and for a purpose where it can do most good. Covid has robbed our children of so much in these past 12 months, we were determined that this funding would be put to good use by the
NHS confident double up vaccine rollout can be met in West Yorkshire halifaxcourier.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from halifaxcourier.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.